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Mark Stoyle grew up in rural mid-Devon. After leaving school, he worked for a time as a field archaeologist in Exeter. He studied for his undergraduate degree in History at the University of Southampton and completed his DPhil at the University of Oxford. He held the Scouloudi Fellowship at the Institute of Historical Research in London and a British Academy Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Exeter before being appointed to his current post at Southampton. Stoyle specializes in early modern British history, with particular research interests in the British crisis of the 1640s, witchcraft, urban society, and Tudor rebellions. He has written scholarly articles and eight monographs, including "Black Legend Prince Rupert’s Dog: Witchcraft Propaganda in the English Civil War" (University of Exeter Press, 2011) and "Water City: Aqueducts and Underground Passages in Exeter" (University of Exeter Press, 2014). He is currently a co-investigator on a major AHRC-funded research project, 'Conflict, Welfare and Memory: Maimed Soldiers and War Widows in the English Civil Wars, 1642-1700'. Stoyle has served on the Council of the Royal Historical Society and has been a member of the advisory board for the Victoria County History and the editorial advisory panel for BBC History Magazine. He has appeared on more than 50 radio and TV programmes, including 'The World One', 'Who Think You Are?', 'The Long View', and 'Making History'.