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Arthur Stanley Turberville
1888–1945
A British historian with a gift for making earlier centuries feel vivid and readable, he wrote popular works on English social history as well as studies of religion and persecution. His academic life was shaped by both scholarship and wartime service.
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Mediæval Heresy & the Inquisition
by Arthur Stanley Turberville
About the author
Arthur Stanley Turberville (1888–1945), usually published as A. S. Turberville, was a British historian who became Professor of Modern History at the University of Leeds. He studied at Oxford and also taught at Liverpool, Wales, and Manchester before moving to Leeds.
His career was interrupted by service in the King's Royal Rifle Corps during the First World War, where he was awarded the Military Cross. That combination of academic depth and lived experience seems to have fed into the clear, practical style of his historical writing.
Turberville is especially remembered for books that opened up English history through everyday life, politics, and belief, including works on eighteenth-century England and on the Inquisition. Archival records also show that his papers survived him, reflecting a career that was respected both in the classroom and in print.