The Faculty
Dr Brodie Waddell
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, 2010-2012
Wolfson College Research Fellow, 2010-2012
West Road
Cambridge CB3 9EF
Biography:
My doctoral research at the University of Warwick, supervised by Prof. Steve Hindle, focused on economic culture and social ideals in later Stuart England. This will be published as God, Duty and Community in English Economic Life, 1660-1720 (Boydell & Brewer, forthcoming).
Previously, I held a post-doctoral research fellowship at the Borthwick Institute, University of York (2009-10). It allowed me to undertake an intensive historical study of local communities in the Vale of York, and to examine early modern manor courts as a site of communal regulation in Yorkshire and elsewhere.
For my postdoctoral work, I am examining popular reactions to the economic problems of the 1690s in England, focusing on the food scarcities and trade depressions of that decade. This project will illuminate the divergent responses of paupers, the labouring poor, preachers, pamphleteers, local officials, and the central government.
Subject groups/Research projects
Teaching
- 2011-12: supervising Part I of the History Tripos, Paper 4 (British Political and Constutional History, 1450-1750) and Paper 9 (British Economic and Social History, c.1500-1750)
- 2011: four lectures on 'Economic Policy, Public Opinion and Social Protest in Early Modern England' for Papers 4 and 9.
- 2007-09: seminar tutor for 'Social History of England, 1500-1700' at Department of History, University of Warwick
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Key Publications
- God, Duty and Community in English Economic Life, 1660-1720 (Boydell & Brewer, forthcoming, 2012).
- 'Governing England Through the Manor Courts, 1550-1850', Historical Journal (forthcoming, 2012).
- Landscape and Rural Society in the Vale of York, c.1500-1800 (Borthwick Paper no. 120; York, 2011).
- ‘Neighbours and Strangers: The Locality in Later Stuart Economic Culture’, in Fiona Williamson (ed.), Locating Agency: Space, Power and Popular Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010), pp. 103-132.
- ‘Economic Immorality and Social Reformation in English Popular Preaching, 1585-1625’, Cultural and Social History, 5:2 (June 2008), pp. 165-182.
Other Publications
- ‘Review of Keith Thomas, The Ends of Life: Roads to Fulfilment in Early Modern England (Oxford University Press, 2009)’, Cultural and Social History (forthcoming).
- ‘Review Essay: Contrasting Histories of the English Provincial Town’, Journal of Urban History, 37:3 (May 2011), pp. 460-465.
- Co-authored with Mark Hailwood, ‘Conference Report: Plebeian Culture in Early Modern England: 35 Years after E. P. Thompson’, Social History, 34:4 (November 2009), pp. 472-476.