Andy Wood (historian)

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Andy Wood (born 1967) is a British social historian. Mostly, he works on the period 1500–1800, but his work on folklore has taken him into the mid-twentieth century. His research interests include popular politics, rebellion, popular memory, belief, popular culture, local identity, folklore, migration patterns, urban and rural society, the mid-Tudor crisis, the English Revolution, popular understandings of Renaissance drama, class identities, and local traditions. With his friend John H. Arnold, he co-authored a critique of Ken MacLeod's science-fiction writing. He also has an interest in the history of the British Left in the late twentieth century. His fourth book, The Memory of the People: Custom and Popular Senses of the Past in Early Modern England, won the American Historical Association's Leo Gershoy Award.[1] Wood is currently writing two books: I Predict a Riot: a history of the World in Twelve Rebellions (Atlantic Books, forthcoming);[2] Letters of Blood and Fire: Authority and Resistance in England, 1500-1640 (Cambridge University Press: forthcoming).

Wood holds degrees from the University of York and Cambridge University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and has held Fellowships at the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Huntington Library and the Institute of Historical Research.[3] He is Professor of Social History at Durham University.[4]

Books[]

  • Faith, Hope and Charity: English Neighbourhoods, 1500-1640 (Cambridge University Press, 2020).
  • The memory of the people : custom and popular senses of the past in early modern England. Cambridge, United Kingdom/New York: Cambridge University Press. 2013. ISBN 9780521896108. OCLC 830837503.
  • The 1549 rebellions and the making of early modern England. Cambridge, UK New York: Cambridge University Press. 2007. ISBN 9780511367861. OCLC 192136984.[5][6]
  • Riot, rebellion and popular politics in early modern England. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire/New York: Palgrave. 2002. ISBN 9781403940384. OCLC 1017880433.
  • Wood, Andy (1999). The politics of social conflict : the Peak Country, 1520-1770. New York: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511496134. ISBN 9780511496134. OCLC 49414761.

References[]

  1. ^ "Leo Gershoy Award Recipients". American Historical Association.
  2. ^ "Professor Andy Wood, BA (Hons) York, PhD (Cantab) FRHS". Durham University.
  3. ^ "Prof Andy Wood". Peters Fraser + Dunlop.
  4. ^ "Professor Andy Wood". Institute of Advanced Study. University of Durham.
  5. ^ Harris, T. (2009). [Review of The 1549 Rebellions and the Making of Early Modern England]. The American Historical Review, 114(3), 826–827. Retrieved from https://www.jstor.org/stable/30224063
  6. ^ Musselwhite, Laura. 2008. Whittle, Jane. 2008. The Agricultural History Review 56 (2). British Agricultural History Society: 219–20. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40276276.

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