Norman Hargreaves-Mawdsley

William Norman Hargreaves-Mawdsley (13 November 1921 – 11 April 1980) was a British historian, and expert on the history of

After completing his doctoral research, he was appointed a tutor and librarian at Exeter College, Oxford, after which he took up a research fellowship at the University of Edinburgh (1961-1964), followed by a lectureship in history at the University of St Andrews (1964-1970).^[5] He spent part of 1970 as a visiting professor at the University of South Carolina before his appointment later that year as professor and head of the Department of History at Brandon University in Manitoba. He and his wife Josefina, whom he had married in 1959,^[6] returned to Oxford during the university vacations. Between 1967 and 1979 he wrote several books on a variety of historical topics, many related to England and Spain during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He died suddenly of a heart attack in April 1980, while attending a university committee meeting.^[4]

Bibliography

• Hargreaves-Mawdsley, W N (1963). A History of Academical Dress in Europe until the End of the Eighteenth Century. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• Hargreaves-Mawdsley, W N (1963). A History of Legal Dress in Europe until the End of the Eighteenth Century. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• Hargreaves-Mawdsley, W N (1967). The English Della Cruscans and Their Age, 1783-1828. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff.
• Hargreaves-Mawdsley, W N (1968). Everyman's Dictionary of European Writers. London: Dent.
  ISBN 0460030191
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• Hargreaves-Mawdsley, W N (1969). Woodforde at Oxford 1759-1776: Extracts from his Diary. Oxford: Clarendon Press / Oxford Historical Society.
  ISBN 0901775010
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• Hargreaves-Mawdsley, W N (1973). Spain under the Bourbons 1700-1833: A Collection of Documents. London: Macmillan.
  ISBN 0333106849
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• Hargreaves-Mawdsley, W N (1973). Oxford in the age of John Locke. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press.
  ISBN 0806110384
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• Hargreaves-Mawdsley, W N (1979). Eighteenth-Century Spain 1700-1788: A Political, Diplomatic and Institutional History. London: Macmillan.
  ISBN 0333146123
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