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{{Infobox academic<br />
| name = J. C. Davis<br />
| alma_mater = [[University of Manchester]]<br />
| discipline = Historian<br />
| workplaces = {{Plainlist|<br />
* [[Victoria University of Wellington]]<br />
* [[University of East Anglia]]<br />
* [[Massey University]]<br />
* [[University of Waikato]]<br />
}}<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1940|05|28|df=y}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Yorkshire]], England<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2021|07|25|1940|05|28|df=y}}<br />
| death_place = [[Glasgow]], Scotland<br />
| birth_name = James Colin Davis<br />
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'''James Colin Davis''' (28 May 1940 – 25 July 2021) was a British historian, whose work often focused on the Utopian thinkers of the 17th century. He has been described as a "historian of political and religious thought and a brilliant and provocative iconoclast".<ref>R. Hutton's review of J. C. Davis, Oliver Cromwell (London, 2001), H-Net Book Review, H-Net: Humanities & Social Sciences Online, August 2001.</ref> The book ''Liberty, Authority, Formality: Political Ideas and Culture, 1600-1900'' was written in honour of Davis at the time of his retirement as professor.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=FJW7BAAAQBAJ&dq=An+Appreciation+of+Colin+Davis%27%2C+in+Morrow%2C+John%2C+Scott%2C+Jonathan&pg=PT6 ''Liberty, Authority, Formality: Political Ideas and Culture, 1600-1900'']</ref><br />
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==Life==<br />
Professor Colin Davis was born in Hesse, Yorkshire into a fisherman's family.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Ramiro Avilés |first=Miguel Angel |date=2021-11-29 |title=J.C.Davis. In memoriam |url=https://e-revistas.uc3m.es/index.php/DYL/article/view/6511 |journal=DERECHOS Y LIBERTADES: Revista de Filosofía del Derecho y derechos humanos |issue=46 |pages=17–19 |doi=10.20318/dyl.2022.6511 |issn=2340-9673|doi-access=free }}</ref> He received his education at the [[University of Manchester]] and after a brief period at the [[Foreign and Commonwealth Office]] he moved to New Zealand to teach at the [[University of Waikato]].<ref name=":0" /> He worked and studied at a number of universities in New Zealand before setting up the School of History at the [[University of East Anglia]], Norwich.<ref>de Lario, Damaso. 'An Appreciation of Colin Davis', in Morrow, John, Scott, Jonathan (eds.) ''Liberty, Authority, Formality.'' (2008) Imprint Academic. {{ISBN|9781845401351}}.</ref> Davis retired in 2004. He subsequently moved to Glasgow where he died in July 2021.<ref>https://www.uea.ac.uk/hum/Old+people+pages+(hidden)/hispeopleold/Emeriti/Davis {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}</ref><br />
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==Books==<br />
Published in 2001, Davis' comprehensive study ''Oliver Cromwell'' was described as "the best analysis we have of Cromwell's religion and its politics" by the Journal of Modern History.<ref>[https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/oliver-cromwell-9780340731185/ Publisher's description of Davis' ''Oliver Cromwell'']</ref> Davis' 1986 work ''Fear, Myth and History: The Ranters and the Historians'' was particularly noted for questioning whether the radical, nonconformists known as the [[Ranters]] ever existed per se, being rather a myth created by conservatives to endorse traditional values by comparison with an unimaginably radical other.<ref>[https://www.lrb.co.uk/v09/n13/ep-thompson/on-the-rant E P Thompson's review of Fear, Myth and History: The Ranters and the Historians]</ref> Other works by J. C. Davis include ''Utopia and the Ideal Society: A Study of English Utopian Writing, 1516-1700'' (1983),<ref>[https://www.lrb.co.uk/v03/n13/christopher-hill/full-employment-utopias Review of Utopia and the Ideal Society: A Study of English Utopian Writing, 1516-1700]</ref> and a biography of [[Gerrard Winstanley]] co-authored with J. D. Alsop for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.<ref>[http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/29/101029755/Winstanley biography]</ref><br />
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