![]() His design of the department was characterised more by concern for detail and for what could be shown to work well than by radical innovation. Woolrych played a key role not only in setting up the history department but in establishing the university's academic course. In 1964 he moved to Lancaster, one of the first appointments made by Charles Carter (obituary, August 2, 2002) as he planned his new university. In 1949 he joined the history department at Leeds University and spent 15 happy years there, publishing just two lightly researched but enduring books: Battles Of The English Civil War (1961) and Oliver Cromwell (1964), a military biography. He stayed on and studied for a BLitt, writing what is still one of the very best studies on the turmoil that characterised the period from the fall of the Cromwellian Protectorate to the Restoration. In 1945 he went up to Pembroke College, Oxford and took a BA in history. ![]()
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