Lloyd Bowen

Lloyd Bowen (born 24 October 1971) is a Welsh academic and author, whose work focuses on the political and social history of early modern Wales and Britain. He is a professor of early modern history at Cardiff University.

Bowen has also published multiple monographs on early political figures such as John Poyer and Edward Vaughan, examining factionalism, early Welsh law and the beginning of the Second English Civil War.

Civil War Petitions Project Bowen (2nd from the right) and other contributors to the petitions project. The Civil War Petitions Project is a collaborative research effort, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) that examines petitions submitted by veterans, widows, and civilians seeking relief following the British Civil Wars. The project ran from June 2017 to October 2020 and investigated the social, political, and cultural consequences of the wars and explored how petitioning functioned as a form of communication and political participation in early modern Britain. As a co-investigator on the project, Bowen contributed through research on the language, form, and authenticity of petitions, with particular attention to Welsh perspectives. His work examines how such petitions created narratives and how memory of the Civil Wars was shaped through bureaucratic and legal processes.

Honours and awards In 2024, Bowen was elected as a fellow of the Learned Society of Wales. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Selected published works