Andy Wood (historian) explained

Andy Wood
Birth Date:20 January 1967
Alma Mater:University of Cambridge
University of York
Discipline:Social history
Workplaces:Durham University

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 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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  1. Web site: Leo Gershoy Award Recipients. American Historical Association.
  2. Web site: Professor Andy Wood, BA (Hons) York, PhD (Cantab) FRHS. Durham University.
  3. Web site: Prof Andy Wood. Peters Fraser + Dunlop.
  4. Web site: Professor Andy Wood. Institute of Advanced Study. University of Durham.
  5. Web site: Record number of women elected to the British Academy . The British Academy . 15 August 2022 . en . 22 July 2022.
  6. 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
  7. Musselwhite, Laura. 2008. Whittle, Jane. 2008. The Agricultural History Review 56 (2). British Agricultural History Society: 219–20. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40276276.