Claire Cross
M. Claire Cross is a British historian and professor emeritus in history at the University of York. She was president of the Ecclesiastical History Society in 1989-90. Education. Cross studied at the University of Cambridge before becoming county archivist for Cambridgeshire. She also studied at the Huntingdon Library in California, then held a research fellowship at the University of Reading before becoming lecturer at the University of York (1965-2000). Career. She was a visiting fellow at Girton College, Cambridge in 1990-91. She was president of the Ecclesiastical History Society in 1989-90 and the Society  presented her with a festschrift, "Life and Thought in the Northern Church, c.1100-1700" in 1999 and made her an honorary fellow in 2000. Cross was chair and later vice-president of the British Association for Local History. Awards and recognitions. Cross was elected a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, Royal Historical Society, Historical Association, and was awarded an honorary D.Litt. by the University of Lincoln.