Andy Wood
Biographic Data
| ID | 3783372 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andy Wood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andy |
| FAMILY NAME | Wood |
| SIGNATURE | WOOD A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6448-0117 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Faith, Hope and Charity: English Neighbourhoods, 1500–1640
Faith, Hope and Charity explores the interaction between social ideals and everyday experiences in Tudor and early Stuart neighbourhoods, drawing on a remarkably rich variety of hitherto largely unstudied sources. Focusing on local sites, where ordinary people lived their lives, Andy Wood deals with popular religion, gender relations, senses of locality and belonging, festivity, work, play, witchcraft, gossip, and reactions to dearth and disease.…
State and Commonwealth: The Theory of the State in Early Modern England, 1549–1640, by Noah Dauber
Recent years have seen the emergence of a social history of state formation in early modern England, most notably in the form of major monographs by Steve Hindle and Michael Braddick. Together with work by Phil Withington, which has dealt with popular engagement in urban governance, the result has been a vision of state formation from the bottom up. What remains missing is some fuller sense of the ruling ideas that underwrote the flexible, relati…
Popular Culture and Political Agency in Early Modern England and Ireland: Essays in Honour of John Walter
Tales from the 'Yarmouth Hutch: Civic Identities and Hidden Histories in an Urban Archive
All archives have a purpose; their collection, organization and deployment is never neutral. Historians take from the archive those fragments that seem to us to prove a particular case, or to enrich the story we wish to tell. But it is hard for us -in our teaching, in our writing, perhaps also in our thinking -to capture the endlessly protean nature of the archive. This article tries to capture some of the ways in which an archive sustained certa…
Some banglyng about the customes’: Popular Memory and the Experience of Defeat in a Sussex Village, 1549–1640
This article deploys a body of remarkably detailed witness statements to interrogate the nature of popular memory and social conflict in Petworth, Sussex. These depositions are located in two specific contexts: a struggle between the tenants of Petworth and the ninth earl of Northumberland (1591 – 1608) and the broader pattern of resistance and negotiation in the village between the ‘commotion time’ of 1549 and the calling of the Short Parliament…
Custom, Improvement and the Landscape in Early Modern Britain
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The Deep Roots of Albion's Fatal Tree: The T udor State and the Monopoly of Violence
Building upon some classical debates in historical materialism, this essay proceeds to a critical appreciation of the coercive capacities of the T udor state. Balancing evidence for coercion against that for more subtle processes of negotiation and persuasion, it shows that when faced with substantial opposition, the T udor state was capable of exercising massive organized violence. From this flow two key points: first, that the extreme violence …
Remaking English Society: Social Relations and Social Change in Early Modern England
Landlords and Tenants in Britain, 1440-1660: Tawney's Agrarian Problem Revisited
The Memory of the People: Custom and Popular Senses of the Past in Early Modern England
Did ordinary people in early modern England have any coherent sense of the past? Andy Wood's pioneering new book charts how popular memory generated a kind of usable past that legitimated claims to rights, space and resources. He explores the genesis of customary law in the medieval period; the politics of popular memory; local identities and traditions; gender and custom; literacy, orality and memory; landscape, space and memory; and the legacy …
Dangerous Talk: Scandalous, Seditious and Treasonable Speech in Pre-modern England . By David Cressy
Politics of Social Conflict: The Peak Country, 1520-1770
A lyttull worde ys tresson”: Loyalty, Denunciation, and Popular Politics in Tudor England
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Conflict, Power and Politics in the City (1973): Kevin Cox
Contemporary black British Urban fiction: A ‘Ghetto perspective
(2002). Contemporary black British Urban fiction: A ‘Ghetto perspective'? Wasafiri: Vol. 17, No. 36, pp. 18-22
‘Poore Men Woll Speke One Daye’: Plebeian Languages of Deference and Defiance in England, c.1520–1640
In May 1525, the Suffolk town of Lavenham became the site of a remarkable encounter between noble authority and plebeian resistance. Over the spring of that year, Cardinal Wolsey's demands for an 'Amicable Grant' intended to finance Henry VIII'S foreign adventures had faced growing hostility across East Anglia and southern England.2 Opposition was most public in the textile region of southern Suffolk and northern Essex. Here, negotiations between…
The Politics of Social Conflict: The Peak Country, 1520–1770
This book provides an alternative approach to the history of social conflict, popular politics and plebeian culture in the early modern period. Based on a close study of the Peak Country of Derbyshire c. 1520–1770, it has implications for understandings of class identity, popular culture, riot, custom and social relations. A detailed reconstruction of economic and social change within the region is followed by an in-depth examination of the chang…
Custom and the Social Organisation of Writing in Early Modern England
Social historians of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England have tended to see literacy as a modernising force which eroded oral tradition and overrode local identities. Whereas the increasing literacy of the period has long appeared an important constituent element of Tudor and Stuart England's early modernity, custom has been represented as its mirror image. Attached to cumbersome local identities, borne from the continuing authority of spe…
The place of custom in plebeian political culture: England, 1550–1800
(1997). The place of custom in plebeian political culture: England, 1550–1800. Social History: Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 46-60
Beyond Post-Revisionism? The Civil War Allegiances of the Miners of the Derbyshire ‘Peak Country’
This essay challenges the established interpretation of the political allegiances of the miners of north-west Derbyshire. It shows that, far from being dominated by parliamentarian and puritan ideas in 1642, the miners were deeply divided in their response to the war. Both the king and the parliament were able to recruit troops from amongst the miners throughout the first civil war. From this, a broader critique of recent historical work on popul…
Custom, Identity and Resistance: English Free Miners and Their Law c. 1550–1800
Recent historical interpretations of the role played by the law in early modern English society have tended to emphasise its incorporative and consensual nature. While some historians have chosen to stress the hegemonic qualities of the law, whereby the ruled were reconciled to their station through a legalistic and libertarian discourse which emphasised the inalienable 'rights of the freeborn Englishman', while actually operating in the interest…
The Capitalist Imperative: Territory, Technology and Industrial Growth
Social Conflict and Change in the Mining Communities of North-West Derbyshire, c. 1600–1700
Increased demand for lead on both domestic and international markets spurred on technological and organizational innovation in Derbyshire's lead mining industry. Population expanded due to immigration into the mining areas, and problems of poverty and proletarianization were created as the traditional small producers were marginalized by new capitalized mineworkings owned by aristocrats, merchants and gentlemen. Social conflict intensified over t…
The place of custom in plebeian political culture: England, 1550–1800
(1997). The place of custom in plebeian political culture: England, 1550–1800. Social History: Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 46-60
Social Conflict and Change in the Mining Communities of North-West Derbyshire, c. 1600–1700
Increased demand for lead on both domestic and international markets spurred on technological and organizational innovation in Derbyshire's lead mining industry. Population expanded due to immigration into the mining areas, and problems of poverty and proletarianization were created as the traditional small producers were marginalized by new capitalized mineworkings owned by aristocrats, merchants and gentlemen. Social conflict intensified over t…
A lyttull worde ys tresson”: Loyalty, Denunciation, and Popular Politics in Tudor England
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Beyond Post-Revisionism? The Civil War Allegiances of the Miners of the Derbyshire ‘Peak Country’
This essay challenges the established interpretation of the political allegiances of the miners of north-west Derbyshire. It shows that, far from being dominated by parliamentarian and puritan ideas in 1642, the miners were deeply divided in their response to the war. Both the king and the parliament were able to recruit troops from amongst the miners throughout the first civil war. From this, a broader critique of recent historical work on popul…
Some banglyng about the customes’: Popular Memory and the Experience of Defeat in a Sussex Village, 1549–1640
This article deploys a body of remarkably detailed witness statements to interrogate the nature of popular memory and social conflict in Petworth, Sussex. These depositions are located in two specific contexts: a struggle between the tenants of Petworth and the ninth earl of Northumberland (1591 – 1608) and the broader pattern of resistance and negotiation in the village between the ‘commotion time’ of 1549 and the calling of the Short Parliament…
Tales from the 'Yarmouth Hutch: Civic Identities and Hidden Histories in an Urban Archive
All archives have a purpose; their collection, organization and deployment is never neutral. Historians take from the archive those fragments that seem to us to prove a particular case, or to enrich the story we wish to tell. But it is hard for us -in our teaching, in our writing, perhaps also in our thinking -to capture the endlessly protean nature of the archive. This article tries to capture some of the ways in which an archive sustained certa…
The Deep Roots of Albion's Fatal Tree: The T udor State and the Monopoly of Violence
Building upon some classical debates in historical materialism, this essay proceeds to a critical appreciation of the coercive capacities of the T udor state. Balancing evidence for coercion against that for more subtle processes of negotiation and persuasion, it shows that when faced with substantial opposition, the T udor state was capable of exercising massive organized violence. From this flow two key points: first, that the extreme violence …
Contemporary black British Urban fiction: A ‘Ghetto perspective
(2002). Contemporary black British Urban fiction: A ‘Ghetto perspective'? Wasafiri: Vol. 17, No. 36, pp. 18-22
The Capitalist Imperative: Territory, Technology and Industrial Growth
Social Conflict and Change in the Mining Communities of North-West Derbyshire, c. 1600–1700
Increased demand for lead on both domestic and international markets spurred on technological and organizational innovation in Derbyshire's lead mining industry. Population expanded due to immigration into the mining areas, and problems of poverty and proletarianization were created as the traditional small producers were marginalized by new capitalized mineworkings owned by aristocrats, merchants and gentlemen. Social conflict intensified over t…
Custom, Identity and Resistance: English Free Miners and Their Law c. 1550–1800
Recent historical interpretations of the role played by the law in early modern English society have tended to emphasise its incorporative and consensual nature. While some historians have chosen to stress the hegemonic qualities of the law, whereby the ruled were reconciled to their station through a legalistic and libertarian discourse which emphasised the inalienable 'rights of the freeborn Englishman', while actually operating in the interest…
The place of custom in plebeian political culture: England, 1550–1800
(1997). The place of custom in plebeian political culture: England, 1550–1800. Social History: Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 46-60
Beyond Post-Revisionism? The Civil War Allegiances of the Miners of the Derbyshire ‘Peak Country’
This essay challenges the established interpretation of the political allegiances of the miners of north-west Derbyshire. It shows that, far from being dominated by parliamentarian and puritan ideas in 1642, the miners were deeply divided in their response to the war. Both the king and the parliament were able to recruit troops from amongst the miners throughout the first civil war. From this, a broader critique of recent historical work on popul…
The Politics of Social Conflict: The Peak Country, 1520–1770
This book provides an alternative approach to the history of social conflict, popular politics and plebeian culture in the early modern period. Based on a close study of the Peak Country of Derbyshire c. 1520–1770, it has implications for understandings of class identity, popular culture, riot, custom and social relations. A detailed reconstruction of economic and social change within the region is followed by an in-depth examination of the chang…
Custom and the Social Organisation of Writing in Early Modern England
Social historians of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England have tended to see literacy as a modernising force which eroded oral tradition and overrode local identities. Whereas the increasing literacy of the period has long appeared an important constituent element of Tudor and Stuart England's early modernity, custom has been represented as its mirror image. Attached to cumbersome local identities, borne from the continuing authority of spe…
‘Poore Men Woll Speke One Daye’: Plebeian Languages of Deference and Defiance in England, c.1520–1640
In May 1525, the Suffolk town of Lavenham became the site of a remarkable encounter between noble authority and plebeian resistance. Over the spring of that year, Cardinal Wolsey's demands for an 'Amicable Grant' intended to finance Henry VIII'S foreign adventures had faced growing hostility across East Anglia and southern England.2 Opposition was most public in the textile region of southern Suffolk and northern Essex. Here, negotiations between…
Contemporary black British Urban fiction: A ‘Ghetto perspective
(2002). Contemporary black British Urban fiction: A ‘Ghetto perspective'? Wasafiri: Vol. 17, No. 36, pp. 18-22
Conflict, Power and Politics in the City (1973): Kevin Cox
Politics of Social Conflict: The Peak Country, 1520-1770
A lyttull worde ys tresson”: Loyalty, Denunciation, and Popular Politics in Tudor England
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Dangerous Talk: Scandalous, Seditious and Treasonable Speech in Pre-modern England . By David Cressy
Remaking English Society: Social Relations and Social Change in Early Modern England
Landlords and Tenants in Britain, 1440-1660: Tawney's Agrarian Problem Revisited
The Memory of the People: Custom and Popular Senses of the Past in Early Modern England
Did ordinary people in early modern England have any coherent sense of the past? Andy Wood's pioneering new book charts how popular memory generated a kind of usable past that legitimated claims to rights, space and resources. He explores the genesis of customary law in the medieval period; the politics of popular memory; local identities and traditions; gender and custom; literacy, orality and memory; landscape, space and memory; and the legacy …
Some banglyng about the customes’: Popular Memory and the Experience of Defeat in a Sussex Village, 1549–1640
This article deploys a body of remarkably detailed witness statements to interrogate the nature of popular memory and social conflict in Petworth, Sussex. These depositions are located in two specific contexts: a struggle between the tenants of Petworth and the ninth earl of Northumberland (1591 – 1608) and the broader pattern of resistance and negotiation in the village between the ‘commotion time’ of 1549 and the calling of the Short Parliament…
Custom, Improvement and the Landscape in Early Modern Britain
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Deep Roots of Albion's Fatal Tree: The T udor State and the Monopoly of Violence
Building upon some classical debates in historical materialism, this essay proceeds to a critical appreciation of the coercive capacities of the T udor state. Balancing evidence for coercion against that for more subtle processes of negotiation and persuasion, it shows that when faced with substantial opposition, the T udor state was capable of exercising massive organized violence. From this flow two key points: first, that the extreme violence …
Tales from the 'Yarmouth Hutch: Civic Identities and Hidden Histories in an Urban Archive
All archives have a purpose; their collection, organization and deployment is never neutral. Historians take from the archive those fragments that seem to us to prove a particular case, or to enrich the story we wish to tell. But it is hard for us -in our teaching, in our writing, perhaps also in our thinking -to capture the endlessly protean nature of the archive. This article tries to capture some of the ways in which an archive sustained certa…
Popular Culture and Political Agency in Early Modern England and Ireland: Essays in Honour of John Walter
State and Commonwealth: The Theory of the State in Early Modern England, 1549–1640, by Noah Dauber
Recent years have seen the emergence of a social history of state formation in early modern England, most notably in the form of major monographs by Steve Hindle and Michael Braddick. Together with work by Phil Withington, which has dealt with popular engagement in urban governance, the result has been a vision of state formation from the bottom up. What remains missing is some fuller sense of the ruling ideas that underwrote the flexible, relati…
Faith, Hope and Charity: English Neighbourhoods, 1500–1640
Faith, Hope and Charity explores the interaction between social ideals and everyday experiences in Tudor and early Stuart neighbourhoods, drawing on a remarkably rich variety of hitherto largely unstudied sources. Focusing on local sites, where ordinary people lived their lives, Andy Wood deals with popular religion, gender relations, senses of locality and belonging, festivity, work, play, witchcraft, gossip, and reactions to dearth and disease.…
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