Sydney Anglo

Sydney Anglo, FSA, FRHistS, FLSW, FBA (1 March 1934 – 14 October 2025) was a British historian, academic and scholar. His last post was as Professor Emeritus at Swansea University.^[1]

Career

Anglo began his academic career at the Warburg Institute, where he was a senior fellow from 1970 to 1971.^[1]

In 1981, Anglo joined Swansea University as a professor of the History of Ideas, a position he held until 1986.^[1]

From 1986 to 1999, Anglo served as a research professor at Swansea University.^[1] Concurrently, he held the position of Chairman of the Society for Renaissance Studies from 1986 to 1989.^[1] He was eventually appointed Professor Emeritus at Swansea University.^[1]

Anglo was a Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.^[2]

Personal life and death

Anglo married Margaret M. McGowan in 1964. He died at home on 14 October 2025, at the age of 91.^[3][4]

Bibliography

• Anglo, Sydney, 'The Court Festivals of Henry VII: A Study Based Upon the Account Books of John Heron, Treasurer of the Chamber', Bulletin of John Rylands Library, 43, 1960–1961
• Anglo, Sydney (1969). Spectacle, Pageantry, and Early Tudor Policy^[5][6]
• Anglo, Sydney (1969). Machiavelli: A Dissection^[7]
• Anglo, Sydney (1992). Images of Tudor Kingship^[8][9]
• Anglo, Sydney (2000). The Martial Arts of Renaissance Europe^[10]
• Anglo, Sydney (2000). Machiavelli – The First Century: Studies in Enthusiasm, Hostility, and Irrelevance^[11]
• Anglo, Sydney (2012). The Noble Art of the Sword: Fashion and Fencing in Renaissance Europe, 1520–1630