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Clare Jackson

|birth_name = Janet Clare Louise Jackson |birth_date = |awards = Wolfson History Prize (2022) |occupation = Historian and academic |alma_mater = Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
Aberystwyth University |workplaces = Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge
Trinity Hall, Cambridge |education = Loretto School |discipline = History |sub_discipline = |doctoral_advisor = Mark Goldie |notable_works = ''Devil-Land: England under Siege, 1588–1688'' (2021) }} Janet Clare Louise Jackson (born 1972) is a British historian and academic, specialising in early modern Britain. She was senior tutor of Trinity Hall, Cambridge from 2013 to 2023, and is now Walter Grant Scott Fellow in History and Honorary Professor of Early Modern History. In 2022, she was awarded the Wolfson Prize for ''Devil-Land: England Under Siege, 1588–1688''.

Jackson was educated at Loretto School in Musselburgh, Scotland. She studied history at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge (BA), then undertook a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) degree in history at Aberystwyth University, before returning to Sidney Sussex College for her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree and, later, a research fellowship.

Jackson edited ''The Historical Journal'' from 2004 to 2011. She has appeared as an expert commentator on the BBC Radio 4 programmes ''In Our Time'' and ''Start the Week'', and presented the BBC Two series ''The Stuarts'' (2014) and ''The Stuarts in Exile'' (2015). Provided by Wikipedia