1. Beryl Smalley was an English historian best known for her work The Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages, originally published in 1941, but revised many times, a book that laid the foundations of modern study of the medieval popular Bible.
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Beryl Smalley was born on 3 June 1905 in Highfield House, Stockport Etchells, the eldest of six children born to Edgar Smalley, a Manchester businessman, and Constance Lilian Bowman.
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Beryl Smalley studied there from 1924 to 1927 as Agnes Ley's pupil.
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Between 1931 and 1935, Smalley taught at Royal Holloway College, when she left to become a research fellow at Girton College, Cambridge.
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Beryl Smalley remained in that position until 1969, while from 1957 onwards she was the college's Vice-Principal.
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Beryl Smalley discovered the lost biblical lectures of John Wycliffe, though she had no sympathy for the man himself.
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Beryl Smalley was a member of the Marxist Historians Group until 1956, when most members of the group left.
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In 1963, Beryl Smalley was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.
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In 1985, a Festschrift was published in her memory, titled Bible in the Medieval World: Essays in Memory of Beryl Smalley, edited by Katherine Walsh and Diana Wood.
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Beryl Smalley never married, and died in Oxford after a brief illness in 1984.