Faith, Hope and Charity: English neighbourhoods, 1500-1640
(2020)
Book
Wood, A. (2020). Faith, Hope and Charity: English neighbourhoods, 1500-1640. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108886765
Professor Andrew Wood's Outputs (32)
Afterword: landscapes, memories and texts (2018)
Book Chapter
Wood, A. (2018). Afterword: landscapes, memories and texts. In C. Griffin, & B. McDonagh (Eds.), Remembering protest in Britain since 1500 : memory, materiality and the landscape since 1500 (237-244). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74243-4_10This volume forms a powerful antidote to the view that human life is determined by apparently impersonal forces such as price movements and demographics. Rather, it represents a decisive statement as to the political agency and cultural creativity of... Read More about Afterword: landscapes, memories and texts.
Five swans over Littleport: fenland folklore and popular memory, c. 1810-1978 (2017)
Book Chapter
Wood, A. (2017). Five swans over Littleport: fenland folklore and popular memory, c. 1810-1978. In J. H. Arnold, M. Hilton, & J. Rüger (Eds.), History after Hobsbawm : writing the past for the twenty-first century (225-241). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198768784.003.0012This chapter uses fenland folklore as a way of thinking about the importance of the local. It argues against grand narratives of globalization, to suggest instead that for many working people in the past it was in the context of the small community t... Read More about Five swans over Littleport: fenland folklore and popular memory, c. 1810-1978.
Brave minds and hard hands: work, drama and social relations in the hungry 1590s (2017)
Book Chapter
Wood, A. (2017). Brave minds and hard hands: work, drama and social relations in the hungry 1590s. In C. Fitter (Ed.), Shakespeare and the politics of commoners : digesting the new social history (84-103). Oxford Unversity Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198806899.003.0004This chapter focuses upon a small but significant subgenre of dramatic work produced in the 1590s: a set of plays, including 2 Henry VI and Jack Straw, that represented plebeian rebellion and its causes. Sketching the period’s harrowing conditions fo... Read More about Brave minds and hard hands: work, drama and social relations in the hungry 1590s.
Spectral lordship, popular memory and the boggart of Towneley Hall (2017)
Book Chapter
Wood, A. (2017). Spectral lordship, popular memory and the boggart of Towneley Hall. In M. Braddick, & P. Withington (Eds.), Popular culture and political agency in early modern England and Ireland : essays in honour of John Walter (109-122). Boydell Press
Coda: History, time and social memory (2017)
Book Chapter
Wood, A. (2017). Coda: History, time and social memory. In K. Wrightson (Ed.), A social history of England, 1500–1750 (373-391). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781107300835.018The dangers of writing history in twenty-first-century Britain are not profound. The academic historian might incur a stinging book review, find it hard to place articles in leading journals, fail to attract research funding or, worst of all, find a... Read More about Coda: History, time and social memory.
Tales from the ‘Yarmouth Hutch’: civic identities and hidden histories in an urban archive (2016)
Journal Article
Wood, A. (2016). Tales from the ‘Yarmouth Hutch’: civic identities and hidden histories in an urban archive. Past & Present: A Journal of Historical Studies, 230(Supplement 11), 213-230. https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtw034All 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 —... Read More about Tales from the ‘Yarmouth Hutch’: civic identities and hidden histories in an urban archive.
Afterword: Small places, big questions: reintegrating social and economic history, c.1350-1750 (2016)
Book Chapter
Wood, A. (2016). Afterword: Small places, big questions: reintegrating social and economic history, c.1350-1750. In J. Bowen, & A. Brown (Eds.), Custom and commercialisation in English rural society : revisiting Tawney and Postan (250-266). Hertfordshire University Press
The deep roots of Albion’s fatal tree: the Tudor state and the monopoly of violence (2014)
Journal Article
Wood, A. (2014). The deep roots of Albion’s fatal tree: the Tudor state and the monopoly of violence. History, 99(336), 403-417. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229x.12060Building upon some classical debates in historical materialism, this essay proceeds to a critical appreciation of the coercive capacities of the Tudor state. Balancing evidence for coercion against that for more subtle processes of negotiation and pe... Read More about The deep roots of Albion’s fatal tree: the Tudor state and the monopoly of violence.
‘Some banglyng about the customes’: Popular Memory and the Experience of Defeat in a Sussex Village, 1549–1640 (2014)
Journal Article
Wood, A. (2014). ‘Some banglyng about the customes’: Popular Memory and the Experience of Defeat in a Sussex Village, 1549–1640. Rural History, 25(1), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0956793313000174This 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 Petwo... Read More about ‘Some banglyng about the customes’: Popular Memory and the Experience of Defeat in a Sussex Village, 1549–1640.
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 PressDid 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.14A 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 PressThe 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 3This 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.
‘The pedlar of Swaffham, the fenland giant and the Sardinian communist: usable pasts and the politics of folklore in England, c.1600-1830’ (2010)
Book Chapter
Wood, A. (2010). ‘The pedlar of Swaffham, the fenland giant and the Sardinian communist: usable pasts and the politics of folklore in England, c.1600-1830’. In F. Williamson (Ed.), Locating agency: space, power and popular politics (161-92). Cambridge Scholars Press
‘“A lyttull worde ys tresson”’: loyalty, denunciation and popular politics in Tudor England’ (2009)
Journal Article
Wood, A. (2009). ‘“A lyttull worde ys tresson”’: loyalty, denunciation and popular politics in Tudor England’. Journal of British Studies, 48(4), 837-847. https://doi.org/10.1086/603603
The 1549 rebellions and the making of early modern England (2007)
Book
Wood, A. (2007). The 1549 rebellions and the making of early modern England. Cambridge University Press
‘The Queen is “a goggyll-eyed hoore”: gender and seditious speech in early modern England’ (2007)
Book Chapter
Wood, A. (2007). ‘The Queen is “a goggyll-eyed hoore”: gender and seditious speech in early modern England’. In N. Tyacke (Ed.), The English revolution, c. 1590-1720: politics, religion and communities (81-94). Manchester University Press: Manchester
‘Collective violence, social drama and rituals of rebellion in late medieval and early modern England’ (2007)
Book Chapter
Wood, A. (2007). ‘Collective violence, social drama and rituals of rebellion in late medieval and early modern England’. In S. Carroll (Ed.), Cultures of violence: interpersonal violence in historical perspective (99-116). Palgrave: Basingstoke
Subordination, solidarity and the limits of popular agency in a Yorkshire valley, c.1596-1615 (2006)
Journal Article
Wood, A. (2006). Subordination, solidarity and the limits of popular agency in a Yorkshire valley, c.1596-1615. Past & Present: A Journal of Historical Studies, 193(1), 41-72. https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtl011Over the past decade, social historians of early modern England have found themselves drawn to the study of popular politics. Unlike earlier approaches to the subject, which tended to focus upon unitary processes of ‘politicization’, the new social h... Read More about Subordination, solidarity and the limits of popular agency in a Yorkshire valley, c.1596-1615.