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- Cicely Veronica Wedgwood, mit dem Titel Dame (DBE), war eine britische Historikerin. Nach ihrem Studium an der Universität Oxford (Bachelor 1931) wurde sie zur Spezialistin für das frühe 17. Jahrhundert und den Englischen Bürgerkrieg. Sie veröffentlichte 1935 eine Biographie über Thomas Wentworth, 1. Earl of Strafford und eine weitere 1939 über Oliver Cromwell. In Deutschland wurde sie vor allem durch ihr 1938 erschienenes Werk über den Dreißigjährigen Krieg bekannt, das von Sebastian Haffner als die „noch immer beste Monographie“ zu diesem Thema bezeichnet wurde. Wedgwoods Werke zeichnen sich durch akademische Gelehrsamkeit ebenso aus wie durch Verständlichkeit und Lesbarkeit. Außer als Wissenschaftlerin war sie auch als Autorin für den Rundfunk und als Übersetzerin tätig. Unter anderem übertrug sie Elias Canettis Roman „Die Blendung“ aus dem Deutschen ins Englische. Sie war Ehren-Fellow des University College in London und der Lady Margaret Hall in Oxford. 1959 erhielt sie die Goethe Medaille in Frankfurt am Main. 1946 erhielt sie den niederländischen Oranje-Nassau Orden. 1968 wurde sie Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) und erhielt 1969 den Order of Merit. 1960 bis 1969 war sie im Council des Victoria and Albert Museums. 1958 bis 1961 war sie im Arts Council. 1962 bis 1968 und 1969 bis 1976 gehörte sie zu den Trustees der National Gallery. 1953 bis 1978 war sie in der Royal Commission of Historical Manuscripts. 1972 bis 1978 war sie Präsident der britischen Society of Authors und 1950 bis 1957 der englischen Abteilung des Pen Clubs. Sie war Mitglied der Royal Historical Society, der American Historical Association und des Scottish Historical Society. Wedgwood war vielfache Ehrendoktorin (Glasgow, Oxford, Harvard, Keele, Sussex, Liverpool, Smith College, Sheffield). 1952 bis 1966 war sie Mitglied am Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
- (Cicely) Veronica Wedgwood var en engelsk historiker. Wedgwood ble utnevnt til medlem av OM. Hun ble også utnevnt til Dame Commander av Order of the British Empire og ble derved adlet. Hun fikk deretter rett til å føre tiltaleformen Dame foran sitt navn.
- Dame (Cicely) Veronica Wedgwood OM DBE (20 July 1910 – 9 March 1997) was an English historian who generally published under the name C. V. Wedgwood. She specialized in European history of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, including her still-authoritative study The Thirty Years' War (1938 and many later reprintings) and biographies of Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, William the Silent, and Cardinal Richelieu, as well as the authoritative Caroline trilogy,"The Great Rebellion", which included "The King’s Peace" (1955), "The King’s War" (1958), and "The Trial of Charles I" (1964), reprinted as "A Coffin for King Charles". Thirty years after she published her much-praised biography of Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, she returned to the subject and published a much-revised version that was considerably more critical of her subject. Historians often cite Wedgwood's two lives of Strafford as an illustration of scholarly integrity and open-mindedness. Born in Northumberland, she was educated at Norland Place School and read Modern History at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and became a specialist in the English Civil War and early 17th century history. Well regarded in academic circles, her books are widely read, and she was also successful as a lecturer and broadcaster. In 1946 she translated Elias Canetti's Die Blendung, as Auto-da-Fé, under Canetti's supervision. She was the only daughter of Sir Ralph Wedgwood and his wife Iris Veronica Pawson. She had a brother, Sir John Wedgwood. Her book The Last of the Radicals (1951), was about her uncle Josiah Wedgwood, 1st Baron Wedgwood. Wedgwood received honorary degrees from the universities of Glasgow, Sheffield and from Smith College, and was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. She served on the Arts Council and the council of the Victoria and Albert Museum, and was a trustee of the National Gallery. She was created a CBE in 1956, a DBE in 1968, and in 1969 became only the third woman to be appointed a member of the British Order of Merit. Her biography William the Silent was awarded the 1944 James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
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