| Steven Gunn | |
| Birth Name: | Steven John Gunn |
| Nationality: | British |
| Occupation: | Historian and academic |
| Professor of Early Modern History | |
| Boards: | Royal Armouries |
| Children: | 2 |
| Education: | Whitgift School |
| Alma Mater: | Merton College, Oxford |
| Thesis Title: | The life and career of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, c. 1484-1545 |
| Thesis Year: | 1986 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | C. S. L. Davies |
| Discipline: | History |
| Workplaces: | Newcastle University Merton College, Oxford |
| Doctoral Students: | Yuval Noah Harari |
Steven John Gunn FRHistS[1] is an English historian and fellow of Merton College, University of Oxford. He teaches and researches the history of late medieval and early modern Britain and Europe, and is the author of a number of academic texts.
Gunn was an undergraduate and doctoral student at Merton College, Oxford, matriculating in 1979.[2] Prior to this he attended the Whitgift School in South Croydon.[3] Gunn's doctoral thesis, a study of the life and career of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, was supervised by C. S. L. Davies and completed in 1986.[4] Prior to being elected a Tutorial Fellow at his alma mater, Gunn held a research fellowship at Newcastle University.[5]
Gunn's research interests lie in the political, social, cultural and military history of England and its European neighbours, spanning the mid-fifteenth to the late sixteenth century.[6]
Gunn was awarded the Title of Distinction of Professor of Early Modern History by the University of Oxford in October 2015.[7]
Gunn delivered the 2015 James Ford Lectures in British History at the University of Oxford, taking as his subject 'The English people at war in the age of Henry VIII'. A book of the same title based on the lectures was published in 2018.[8]
Between 2018 and 2019 Gunn served as Acting Warden of Merton College in the period between the retirement of Martin J. Taylor and the arrival of his successor, Irene Tracey.[9] He had previously served as Sub-Warden from 2010 to 2012.[10]
In 2021 Gunn was appointed to the board of trustees of the Royal Armouries by Oliver Dowden, the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, serving a four-year term.[11]
Gunn is married to Jacquie,[12] and together they have two daughters.[13]