Mark Bailey (rugby union)

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Mark Bailey
Medieval England
  • Economy of England in the Middle Ages
    • Institutions

    Mark David Bailey,

    Oxford University,[1] which were later published as a book, After the Black Death: Economy, society, and the law in fourteenth-century England.[2]

    Bailey played rugby union for

    visiting professorship
    at UEA. He had once again been Professor of Late Medieval History at UEA since 2020.

    Early life

    Bailey was born on 21 November 1960 in Castleford, Yorkshire.[3] He was educated at Dale Hall Primary School, Ipswich School and Durham University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economic history in 1982. He completed his doctoral studies at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.[4] His PhD was awarded in 1987 for his thesis, "At the margin: Suffolk Breckland in the Middle Ages".[5]

    Sporting career

    In 1979, Bailey won the Cricket Society's Wetherell Award for the best public school all-rounder. In 1980, he played for the NCA Young Cricketers[6] and made his debut in the Minor Counties for Suffolk, for whom he played until 1991 and served as captain between 1988 and 1990.[citation needed]

    Bailey played rugby for Durham University and the University of Cambridge, captaining the latter in the 1983 and 1984 Varsity matches. He won four

    London Wasps between 1984 and 1990, winning the premiership in the 1989–90 season.[7] Bailey was a captain of the England B national team.[8] He also received international honours for England, and played seven times.[9] He made his international in a 1984 series against South Africa,[10] and later played for England at the 1987 Rugby World Cup,[8] and in the 1990 Five Nations Championship.[10] He also played for the Barbarians invitational side.[citation needed
    ]

    After retiring, Bailey became a member of the Rugby Football Union's playing committee.[11] On 16 June 2003, Bailey was honoured with Durham University's Palatinate Award for Sport.[12]

    Academic career

    Bailey was elected to a

    Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS) the same year.[13]

    In 2010 Bailey left Leeds to spend one term as a

    George Martin Stephen as high master of St Paul's School, London, a role he held until June 2020. During this time, he maintained a link with UEA as a visiting professor.[13] In 2020, he was succeeded as high master by Sally-Anne Huang, and he returned to the University of East Anglia.[14][4][15]

    Bailey was invited to deliver the Ford Lectures in British History at the University of Oxford in 2019; these were published in 2021 by Oxford University Press as After the Black Death: Economy, society, and the law in fourteenth-century England. He has written seven books and published a number of academic articles on the economy and society of medieval England.[16] In 2014 he published The Decline of Serfdom in late medieval England: from bondage to freedom.[17]

    Bibliography

    • A Marginal Economy?: East Anglian Breckland in the later Middle Ages (Cambridge University Press, 1989).
    • (Editor) The Bailiffs’ Minute Book of Dunwich 1404–1430 (Boydell Press, 1992).
    • (Co-authored with John Hatcher) Modelling the Middle Ages: The History and Theory of England’s Economic Development (Oxford University Press, 2001).
    • The English Manor c. 1200–1500 (Manchester University Press, 2002).
    • Medieval Suffolk: An Economic and Social History 1200–1500 (Boydell Press, 2007).
    • (Co-edited with Carole Rawcliffe, and Maureen Jurkowski) Poverty and Wealth: Sheep, Taxation and Charity in Medieval Norfolk (Norfolk Record Society, 2007).
    • (Co-authored with S. H. Rigby) Town and Countryside in the Age of the Black Death: Essays in Honour of John Hatcher (Brepols, 2012).
    • The Decline of Serfdom in Late Medieval England (Boydell Press, 2014).
    • After the Black Death: Economy, society, and the law in fourteenth-century England (Oxford University Press, 2021)

    References

    1. ^ "The James Ford Lectures in British History". Retrieved 15 July 2021.
    2. ISBN 978-0-19-885788-4
      . Retrieved 15 July 2021.
    3. ^ "Mark Bailey profile". ESPN. Retrieved 30 October 2010.
    4. ^ a b c "Bailey, Mark David", Who's Who (online ed., Oxford University Press, December 2018). Retrieved 19 April 2019.
    5. ^ "At the margin: Suffolk Breckland in the Middle Ages", EThOS (British Library). Retrieved 19 April 2019.
    6. ^ "Cricket Society's Wetherell Award". Cricket Society. Archived from the original on 29 September 2015. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
    7. ^ Neil Roy, '100 Years of the Blues. The Bedfordshire Times Centenary History of Bedford RUFC', (Bedford, 1986), p. 259
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      Newspapers.com
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    9. ^ "Mark Bailey profile". ESPN. Retrieved 20 November 2015.
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    12. ^ "Rory Kinnear awarded Palatinate Award for Sport". Retrieved 20 November 2015.
    13. ^
      Who's Who 2023
      . Oxford University Press. 1 December 2022. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
    14. ^ "St Paul's School appoints new High Master". St Paul’s School. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
    15. ^ "St Paul's School, London". stpaulsschool.org.uk. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 20 November 2015.
    16. ^ "Mark Bailey profile". uea.ac.uk. Retrieved 20 November 2015.
    17. ^ "Mark Bailey profile". boydellandbrewer.com. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
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