Brodie Waddell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3963695 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brodie Waddell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brodie |
| FAMILY NAME | Waddell |
| SIGNATURE | WADDELL B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birkbeck, University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6982-576X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Power of Petitioning in Early Modern Britain
The ‘humble petition’ was ubiquitous in early modern society and featured prominently in crucial moments such as the outbreak of the civil wars and in everyday local negotiations about taxation, welfare and litigation. People at all levels of society – from noblemen to paupers – used petitions to make their voices heard and these are valuable sources for mapping the structures of authority and agency that framed early modern society. The Power of…
The Popular Politics of Local Petitioning in Early Modern England
This article examines the rise of a culture of local petitioning, through which growing numbers of ordinary people sought to win the support of state authorities through collective claims to represent the “voice of the people” at the local level. These participatory, subscriptional practices were an essential component in the intensification of popular politics in the seventeenth century. The analysis focuses on over 3,800 manuscript petitions su…
Riches and Poverty in English Protestant Culture, c.1550–1800: Vernacularising the Parable of Dives and Lazarus
The story of the rich glutton Dives and the poor beggar Lazarus (Luke 16:19–31) was a popular subject in sermons, pamphlets, poems and ballads in early modern England. This article is the first substantial analysis of how the short but powerful biblical narrative was adapted and explained over the course of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It shows that—despite the huge religious, social and economic changes of this period—the…
Work and Identity in Early Modern England
How did work shape people's identity before industrial capitalism? It is a question that early modernists have never really got to grips with. Thanks to decades of research by social and cultural historians, we now have a much better understanding of how people in the past saw themselves and labelled those around them. But until recently scholars of early modern England have had surprisingly little to say about how a person's working life – their…
The Routledge History of Poverty, c.1450–1800, edited by David Hitchcock and Julia McClure
The Economic Crisis of the 1690s in England
Beginning in 1689, England was struck by not one but three economic shocks. First, the war against France – Europe's greatest military power – attracted swarms of hostile warships and privateers that heavily damaged English maritime trade, while military expenses also led to a doubling of the tax burden. Second, wartime conditions and government mismanagement sparked a currency crisis in 1695–7 that halted much domestic commerce and caused a run …
The Evil May Day riot of 1517 and the popular politics of anti-immigrant hostility in early modern London
London experienced repeated outbreaks of popular xenophobia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, with the worst coming in the Evil May Day riot of 1517. This article illuminates the hydra-like nature of the stereotype of the immigrant at this time, which rhetorically combined the diverse population of aliens into a single material and political threat. It begins with a close analysis of the riot itself, before examining the continuing rele…
The Rise of the Parish Welfare State in England, c .1600–1800
The world’s first nationwide, publicly funded welfare system emerged and solidified in England over the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Its influence on society and economy during this period was profound, but this article is the first attempt to determine the scale of its impact by examining the amount of money annually spent on relief across the whole period. Drawing on data from 184 widely dispersed parishes over more than …
Disaffection and Everyday Life in Interregnum England
Writing History from Below: Chronicling and Record-Keeping in Early Modern England
Over the course of the early modern period, a remarkable number of people below the ranks of the gentry and clergy produced manuscript chronicles, registers and historical miscellanies. This article examines several of these ‘lay’ historians, particularly Joseph Bufton (1651–1718), a tradesman from Coggeshall in Essex who filled more than twenty volumes of notebooks. It shows that these relatively lowly writers created a ‘usable past’ by anchorin…
Peasant Petitions: Social Relations and Economic Life on Landed Estates, 1600–1850
Peasant Petitions: Social Relations and Economic Life on Landed Estates, 1600–1850." Cultural and Social History, 14(2), pp. 275–276
Custom and Commercialisation in English Rural Society: Revisiting Tawney and Postan
The six centuries between c.1200 and c.1800 which form the main period covered by this volume are well-trodden by English economic historians. There is a wealth of source material for this period
Matthew Kadane, The Watchful Clothier: The Life of an Eighteenth-Century Protestant Capitalist
The Invention of Improvement: Information and Material Progress in Seventeenth-Century England, by Paul Slack
In 1523, John Fitzherbert published The Boke of Surveyeng and Improvmentes, becoming the first English author to devote a book to this ‘ryght frutefull mater’ (p. 27). It was well over a hundred pages long and probably would have been read exclusively by wealthy, educated gentlemen, but it also launched a literary genre that would become a key part of English public discourse in the seventeenth century and beyond. Paul Slack’s new book, unlike Fi…
The Politics of Economic Distress in the Aftermath of the Glorious Revolution, 1689–1702
The economic problems of the 1690s spurred an extraordinary surge in politicised debates and complaints about commercial, financial and other material affairs. This article begins by examining the magnitude of the shift that occurred in economic fortunes between the reigns of James II (1685–8) and William III (1689–1702), highlighting the main sources of concern: wartime disruption to trade, rising taxes, the currency crisis associated with the r…
Why We Fight: Congress and the Politics of World War II
Journal Article Why We Fight: Congress and the Politics of World War II Get access Nancy Beck Young. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2013. xvi, 366 pp. $39.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 100, Issue 4, March 2014, Pages 1256–1257, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau104 Published: 01 March 2014
The Ends of Life: Roads to Fulfilment in Early Modern England . By Keith Thomas
(2013). The Ends of Life: Roads to Fulfilment in Early Modern England. By Keith Thomas. Cultural and Social History: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 151-152
Governing England Through the Manor Courts, 1550–1850
Using records from 113 manors in Yorkshire and elsewhere, this article surveys the changing role of manor courts in English local government over three centuries. These institutions allowed juries of established tenants to deal cheaply and easily with a variety of chronic concerns, including crime, migration, retailing, common lands, and infrastructure. Their focus varied significantly according to region, topography, settlement size, and time pe…
Plebeian cultures in early modern England: Thirty-five years after E. P. Thompson
Economic Immorality and Social Reformation in English Popular Preaching, 1585–1625
Popular preachers, often drawing crowds of hundreds, frequently attempted to reform the relationship between rich and poor in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. Rather than accepting economic oppression as part of the divinely-ordained social order, many tried to convince their audiences that the extortions of merchants, landlords and creditors were crimes which should be punished severely by England’s earthly authorities. This paper demonstrates …
Writing History from Below: Chronicling and Record-Keeping in Early Modern England
Over the course of the early modern period, a remarkable number of people below the ranks of the gentry and clergy produced manuscript chronicles, registers and historical miscellanies. This article examines several of these ‘lay’ historians, particularly Joseph Bufton (1651–1718), a tradesman from Coggeshall in Essex who filled more than twenty volumes of notebooks. It shows that these relatively lowly writers created a ‘usable past’ by anchorin…
Governing England Through the Manor Courts, 1550–1850
Using records from 113 manors in Yorkshire and elsewhere, this article surveys the changing role of manor courts in English local government over three centuries. These institutions allowed juries of established tenants to deal cheaply and easily with a variety of chronic concerns, including crime, migration, retailing, common lands, and infrastructure. Their focus varied significantly according to region, topography, settlement size, and time pe…
The Rise of the Parish Welfare State in England, c .1600–1800
The world’s first nationwide, publicly funded welfare system emerged and solidified in England over the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Its influence on society and economy during this period was profound, but this article is the first attempt to determine the scale of its impact by examining the amount of money annually spent on relief across the whole period. Drawing on data from 184 widely dispersed parishes over more than …
The Politics of Economic Distress in the Aftermath of the Glorious Revolution, 1689–1702
The economic problems of the 1690s spurred an extraordinary surge in politicised debates and complaints about commercial, financial and other material affairs. This article begins by examining the magnitude of the shift that occurred in economic fortunes between the reigns of James II (1685–8) and William III (1689–1702), highlighting the main sources of concern: wartime disruption to trade, rising taxes, the currency crisis associated with the r…
The Economic Crisis of the 1690s in England
Beginning in 1689, England was struck by not one but three economic shocks. First, the war against France – Europe's greatest military power – attracted swarms of hostile warships and privateers that heavily damaged English maritime trade, while military expenses also led to a doubling of the tax burden. Second, wartime conditions and government mismanagement sparked a currency crisis in 1695–7 that halted much domestic commerce and caused a run …
Custom and Commercialisation in English Rural Society: Revisiting Tawney and Postan
The six centuries between c.1200 and c.1800 which form the main period covered by this volume are well-trodden by English economic historians. There is a wealth of source material for this period
Plebeian cultures in early modern England: Thirty-five years after E. P. Thompson
The Popular Politics of Local Petitioning in Early Modern England
This article examines the rise of a culture of local petitioning, through which growing numbers of ordinary people sought to win the support of state authorities through collective claims to represent the “voice of the people” at the local level. These participatory, subscriptional practices were an essential component in the intensification of popular politics in the seventeenth century. The analysis focuses on over 3,800 manuscript petitions su…
Riches and Poverty in English Protestant Culture, c.1550–1800: Vernacularising the Parable of Dives and Lazarus
The story of the rich glutton Dives and the poor beggar Lazarus (Luke 16:19–31) was a popular subject in sermons, pamphlets, poems and ballads in early modern England. This article is the first substantial analysis of how the short but powerful biblical narrative was adapted and explained over the course of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It shows that—despite the huge religious, social and economic changes of this period—the…
The Evil May Day riot of 1517 and the popular politics of anti-immigrant hostility in early modern London
London experienced repeated outbreaks of popular xenophobia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, with the worst coming in the Evil May Day riot of 1517. This article illuminates the hydra-like nature of the stereotype of the immigrant at this time, which rhetorically combined the diverse population of aliens into a single material and political threat. It begins with a close analysis of the riot itself, before examining the continuing rele…
Economic Immorality and Social Reformation in English Popular Preaching, 1585–1625
Popular preachers, often drawing crowds of hundreds, frequently attempted to reform the relationship between rich and poor in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. Rather than accepting economic oppression as part of the divinely-ordained social order, many tried to convince their audiences that the extortions of merchants, landlords and creditors were crimes which should be punished severely by England’s earthly authorities. This paper demonstrates …
Plebeian cultures in early modern England: Thirty-five years after E. P. Thompson
Governing England Through the Manor Courts, 1550–1850
Using records from 113 manors in Yorkshire and elsewhere, this article surveys the changing role of manor courts in English local government over three centuries. These institutions allowed juries of established tenants to deal cheaply and easily with a variety of chronic concerns, including crime, migration, retailing, common lands, and infrastructure. Their focus varied significantly according to region, topography, settlement size, and time pe…
The Ends of Life: Roads to Fulfilment in Early Modern England . By Keith Thomas
(2013). The Ends of Life: Roads to Fulfilment in Early Modern England. By Keith Thomas. Cultural and Social History: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 151-152
Why We Fight: Congress and the Politics of World War II
Journal Article Why We Fight: Congress and the Politics of World War II Get access Nancy Beck Young. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2013. xvi, 366 pp. $39.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 100, Issue 4, March 2014, Pages 1256–1257, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau104 Published: 01 March 2014
The Politics of Economic Distress in the Aftermath of the Glorious Revolution, 1689–1702
The economic problems of the 1690s spurred an extraordinary surge in politicised debates and complaints about commercial, financial and other material affairs. This article begins by examining the magnitude of the shift that occurred in economic fortunes between the reigns of James II (1685–8) and William III (1689–1702), highlighting the main sources of concern: wartime disruption to trade, rising taxes, the currency crisis associated with the r…
The Invention of Improvement: Information and Material Progress in Seventeenth-Century England, by Paul Slack
In 1523, John Fitzherbert published The Boke of Surveyeng and Improvmentes, becoming the first English author to devote a book to this ‘ryght frutefull mater’ (p. 27). It was well over a hundred pages long and probably would have been read exclusively by wealthy, educated gentlemen, but it also launched a literary genre that would become a key part of English public discourse in the seventeenth century and beyond. Paul Slack’s new book, unlike Fi…
Peasant Petitions: Social Relations and Economic Life on Landed Estates, 1600–1850
Peasant Petitions: Social Relations and Economic Life on Landed Estates, 1600–1850." Cultural and Social History, 14(2), pp. 275–276
Custom and Commercialisation in English Rural Society: Revisiting Tawney and Postan
The six centuries between c.1200 and c.1800 which form the main period covered by this volume are well-trodden by English economic historians. There is a wealth of source material for this period
Matthew Kadane, The Watchful Clothier: The Life of an Eighteenth-Century Protestant Capitalist
Writing History from Below: Chronicling and Record-Keeping in Early Modern England
Over the course of the early modern period, a remarkable number of people below the ranks of the gentry and clergy produced manuscript chronicles, registers and historical miscellanies. This article examines several of these ‘lay’ historians, particularly Joseph Bufton (1651–1718), a tradesman from Coggeshall in Essex who filled more than twenty volumes of notebooks. It shows that these relatively lowly writers created a ‘usable past’ by anchorin…
Disaffection and Everyday Life in Interregnum England
The Rise of the Parish Welfare State in England, c .1600–1800
The world’s first nationwide, publicly funded welfare system emerged and solidified in England over the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Its influence on society and economy during this period was profound, but this article is the first attempt to determine the scale of its impact by examining the amount of money annually spent on relief across the whole period. Drawing on data from 184 widely dispersed parishes over more than …
The Evil May Day riot of 1517 and the popular politics of anti-immigrant hostility in early modern London
London experienced repeated outbreaks of popular xenophobia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, with the worst coming in the Evil May Day riot of 1517. This article illuminates the hydra-like nature of the stereotype of the immigrant at this time, which rhetorically combined the diverse population of aliens into a single material and political threat. It begins with a close analysis of the riot itself, before examining the continuing rele…
The Routledge History of Poverty, c.1450–1800, edited by David Hitchcock and Julia McClure
The Economic Crisis of the 1690s in England
Beginning in 1689, England was struck by not one but three economic shocks. First, the war against France – Europe's greatest military power – attracted swarms of hostile warships and privateers that heavily damaged English maritime trade, while military expenses also led to a doubling of the tax burden. Second, wartime conditions and government mismanagement sparked a currency crisis in 1695–7 that halted much domestic commerce and caused a run …
Work and Identity in Early Modern England
How did work shape people's identity before industrial capitalism? It is a question that early modernists have never really got to grips with. Thanks to decades of research by social and cultural historians, we now have a much better understanding of how people in the past saw themselves and labelled those around them. But until recently scholars of early modern England have had surprisingly little to say about how a person's working life – their…
The Power of Petitioning in Early Modern Britain
The ‘humble petition’ was ubiquitous in early modern society and featured prominently in crucial moments such as the outbreak of the civil wars and in everyday local negotiations about taxation, welfare and litigation. People at all levels of society – from noblemen to paupers – used petitions to make their voices heard and these are valuable sources for mapping the structures of authority and agency that framed early modern society. The Power of…
The Popular Politics of Local Petitioning in Early Modern England
This article examines the rise of a culture of local petitioning, through which growing numbers of ordinary people sought to win the support of state authorities through collective claims to represent the “voice of the people” at the local level. These participatory, subscriptional practices were an essential component in the intensification of popular politics in the seventeenth century. The analysis focuses on over 3,800 manuscript petitions su…
Riches and Poverty in English Protestant Culture, c.1550–1800: Vernacularising the Parable of Dives and Lazarus
The story of the rich glutton Dives and the poor beggar Lazarus (Luke 16:19–31) was a popular subject in sermons, pamphlets, poems and ballads in early modern England. This article is the first substantial analysis of how the short but powerful biblical narrative was adapted and explained over the course of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It shows that—despite the huge religious, social and economic changes of this period—the…
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