Claire Donovan


Claire Marie Donovan was a British historian and academic.

Career

Donovan was educated in Oxford before studying an undergraduate degree in English and History of Art at the University of London. She gained a Postgraduate diploma from Somerville College, Oxford and a PhD from the University of East Anglia. Her PhD subject, The Early Development of the Illustrated Book of Hours in England, c. 1240–1350, was published as a book in 1981.
She was vice principal of Dartington College of Arts, an Honorary Research Fellow in the College of Humanities at the University of Exeter, a Council member of the Devon History Society, a Trustee of Poltimore House Trust and Chair of the South West Association of Preservation Trusts.

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