Harry Spillane

BA (Oxon), MPhil (Cantab), PhD (Cantab)

College roles

Special Supervisor in History

University roles

Munby Fellow in Bibliography (University Library and Darwin College)
Bye-Fellow in History (Downing College)
Assistant Esquire Bedell

Biography

Dr Spillane is the Munby Research Fellow in Bibliography at the University Library and Darwin College. He was previously a Visiting Research Fellow at the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Dr Spillane completed his PhD in History at Cambridge (2022) under the supervision of Professor Alexandra Walsham. Prior to that he completed an MPhil at Cambridge (2018) and a BA in History at Oxford (2017). Dr Spillane has previously been the History Faculty Cranmer Scholar and received the History Faculty Dr Lightfoot Scholarship and the Cambridge University Library Gordon Duff Prize.

Dr Spillane was Director of Studies in History, History & Politics, and History & Modern Languages at Newnham from 2023-2024.

Research Interests

Dr Spillane is an historian of the early modern period, with particular interests in the history of books, libraries and printing across Europe and the history of religion. He is currently pursuing a project exploring the print history of sixteenth and seventeenth-century English Bibles and the ways in which they have been collected, used and edited in the centuries since. The project also explores how multiple different translations of the Bible in English coexisted and clashed in early modern Britain.