Andy Wood | |
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Born | January 20, 1967 |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge University of York |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Social history |
Institutions | Durham 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]
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