Andy Wood, (born 1967) is a British social historian and academic. Mostly, he works on the early modern period (1500–1800), but his work on

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has taken him into the mid-twentieth century. His research interests include popular politics, rebellion, popular memory,

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, local identity,

, migration patterns, urban and rural society, the mid-Tudor crisis, the

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, popular understandings of Renaissance drama, class identities, and local traditions. With his friend John H. Arnold, he co-authored a critique of

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'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

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. Wood is currently writing two books: ''I Predict a Riot: a history of the World in Twelve Rebellions'' (Atlantic Books, forthcoming); ''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

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. He has held Fellowships at the

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, the

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and the

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. He is Professor of Social History at Durham University. He is an elected

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(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.

Books

* ''Faith, Hope and Charity: English Neighbourhoods, 1500-1640'' (Cambridge University Press, 2020). * *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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* Academics of Durham University Alumni of the University of Cambridge Alumni of the University of York English historians Fellows of the Royal Historical Society 1967 births Living people English Revolution Fellows of the British Academy {{UK-historian-stub