Dr Clare Jackson is a Senior Tutor, Trinity Hall, Cambridge. Her particular interests lie in the rich and complex history of seventeenth-century Britain. She read History at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, Cambridge, before researching a master of Philosophy. In History at the Aberystwyth University.

She then returned to Cambridge to complete a doctor of Philosophy on royalist ideas in late-seventeenth century Scotland at Sidney Sussex College, where she was also a Junior Research Fellow. She moved to Trinity Hall in 2000 and was co-Editor of the Historical Journal between 2004 and 2011. Her major research interests are in early modern political, religious and legal history and she is currently writing a history of Continental Europe's relations with Stuart Britain from c.1585 to c.1715. She presented a three-part television series entitled 'The Stuarts' (2014) for BBC2.^[1][2]