Andy Wood (historian)

FBA, FRHistS
Andy Wood
Born (1967-01-20) January 20, 1967 (age 57)
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
University of York
Academic work
DisciplineSocial history
InstitutionsDurham University

Andy Wood, FBA, FRHistS (born 1967) is a British social historian and academic.

Mostly, he works on the early modern 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 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]

He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS). In 2022, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[5]

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.[6][7]
  • 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. ^ "Record number of women elected to the British Academy". The British Academy. 22 July 2022. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
  6. ^ Harris, Tim (2009). "Review of The 1549 Rebellions and the Making of Early Modern England". The American Historical Review. 114 (3): 826–827. ISSN 0002-8762.
  7. ^ Whittle, Jane (2008). "Review of The 1549 Rebellions and the Making of Early Modern England". The Agricultural History Review. 56 (2): 219–220. ISSN 0002-1490.
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