Dr Mark King is the Director of Studies for final year (Part II) students studying History, History and Modern Languages and History and Politics. Formerly Lucy Cavendish’s Admissions Director and Assistant Senior Tutor: Academic, he moved to Churchill College in 2025 to take up the position of Lead Admissions Tutor, but he retains a strong connection to Lucy and a firm ideological commitment to the College’s goals.
Mark studied history at Cambridge, where he specialised in the political history of late medieval England. Having taught undergraduates whilst completing his PhD, Mark moved into secondary education and spent two years teaching history at a large urban comprehensive in Peterborough, before returning to the University in 2017. His principal research focuses primarily upon the inter-relationship between local and national politics in the later Middle Ages, specifically upon the Welsh Borderlands in the reign of Richard II. However, he has a wide range of academic interests and has published material on everything from Viking raids to the pedagogy of teaching history, the development of the knowledge-rich curriculum and widening participation in Higher Education. He is an Affiliated Lecturer at the Faculty of History and teaches medieval history to first- and second-year undergraduates.
