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The memory of the people: custom and popular senses of the past in early modern England (2013)
Book
Wood, A. (2013). The memory of the people: custom and popular senses of the past in early modern England. Cambridge University Press

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... Read More about The memory of the people: custom and popular senses of the past in early modern England.

The loss of Athelstan’s gift: the politics of popular memory in Malmesbury, 1607-1633 (2013)
Book Chapter
Wood, A. (2013). The loss of Athelstan’s gift: the politics of popular memory in Malmesbury, 1607-1633. In J. Whittle (Ed.), Landlords and tenants in Britain, 1440-1660 : Tawney’s Agrarian problem revisited (85-99). Boydell Press. https://doi.org/10.7722/j.ctt31nh5b.14

A century after its publication, R. H. Tawney’s The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century remains as imaginative, spirited and passionate as ever. For a long time, the book was neglected by early modern historians. The dismissal of The Agrarian P... Read More about The loss of Athelstan’s gift: the politics of popular memory in Malmesbury, 1607-1633.

Deference, paternalism and popular memory in early modern England (2013)
Book Chapter
Wood, A. (2013). Deference, paternalism and popular memory in early modern England. In S. Hindle, A. Shepard, & J. Walter (Eds.), Remaking English society : social relations and social change in early modern England (233-253). Boydell Press

The poetry of John Clare, the most articulate voice of the rural working class of early nineteenth-century England, can be read as a meditation upon the relationship between memory and social relations. Clare drew upon the local traditions with which... Read More about Deference, paternalism and popular memory in early modern England.

Popular senses of time and place in Tudor and Stuart England (2013)
Journal Article
Wood, A. (2013). Popular senses of time and place in Tudor and Stuart England. Insights (Durham), 6, Article 3

This paper presents some early findings of ongoing archival investigation into popular conceptions of time in Tudor and Stuart England. It begins with a critical survey of some of the ways in which historians have understood time. Such accounts have... Read More about Popular senses of time and place in Tudor and Stuart England.