Alan Bryson is a Research Assistant on the ‘England’s Immigrants’ Project.  He is a sixteenth-century British historian, specialising in the reign of Henry VIII during the 1530s and 1540s and the reign of his son Edward VI, particularly in relations between the crown and the nobility and gentry.  He also works on mid-Tudor Ireland and on sixteenth-century English and Scottish verse libel and manuscript culture, and has published with colleagues on interdisciplinary topics in the fields of History and Archaeology, Art History, and English.  He is writing a monograph on Lordship and Politics in Tudor England.

For the project Alan will be researching early Tudor denization.

Publications:
Steven May (co-editor), Verse Libel in Renaissance England and Scotland (Oxford: OUP, forthcoming 2015).
‘Elizabethan Verse Libel’, The Age of Shakespeare, ed. Malcolm Smuts (Oxford: OUP, forthcoming 2015).
Daniel Starza-Smith, Anke Timmermann, Alison Wiggins, Graham Williams (co-editors), Bess of Hardwick’s Letters (Sheffield: HRI Online; 2013).
Hugh Willmott (co-author), ‘Changing to Suit the Times: a Post-Dissolution History of Monk Bretton Priory, South Yorkshire’, Post-Medieval Archaeology, 47 (2013), pp. 136-163.
‘Sir Anthony St Leger and the Outbreak of the Midland Rebellion, 1547-8’, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 113 (2013), pp. 251-277.
‘The Ormond-St Leger Feud, 1544-6’, Irish Historical Studies, 38 (2012), pp. 187-210.
‘Order and Disorder: John Proctor’s History of Wyatt’s Rebellion (1554)’, The Oxford Handbook to Tudor Literature, 1485-1603, eds. Mike Pincombe and Cathy Shrank (Oxford: OUP, 2009), pp. 323-336.
‘Edward VI’s “speciall men”: Crown and Locality in Mid Tudor England’, Historical Research, 82 (2009), pp. 229-251.
Mike Pincombe, Fred Schurink, Cathy Shrank (co-authors), The Origins of Early Modern Literature: Recovering Mid-Tudor Writing for a Modern Readership (Sheffield: HRI Online, 2008).
‘William Allington’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, ed. Lawrence Goldman (Oxford: OUP, 2006 online edn.).
Hazel Forsyth (co-author), ‘Gamaliell Pye, Citizen of London.  A Newly Discovered 16th-Century City Portrait’, The British Art Journal, 6 (2005), pp. 62-70.
‘Hugh Boscawen’, ‘Sir John Cheke’, ‘Sir Anthony St Leger’, ‘Sir John Wallop’, ‘Sir Francis Walsingham’ (co-author: Simon Adams), and ‘Richard Whalley’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, eds. Henry C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison, 60 vols. (Oxford: OUP, 2004), 6, p. 706; 11, pp. 291-298; 48, pp. 649-655; 57, pp. 29-33, 131-150; 58, pp. 351-353.