Professor Michael Braddick

B.A., Ph.D. (Cantab.)

Professor of History, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for the Faculty of Arts and Humanities

Early Modern England; State in Early Modern England, 1550-1700

Office Hours: To request an appointment please email m.braddick@sheffield.ac.uk

m.braddick@sheffield.ac.uk

+44 (0)114 22 29701
 

Faculty Office

Major Publications

Biography

Mike Braddick was educated at Cambridge University where he took both his BA and PhD degrees. He was Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama and Assistant Professor at Birmingham-Southern College, Alabama before coming to Sheffield in 1990. He has held fellowships from the British Academy, the Nuffield Foundation and a Major Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust. He has also held visiting scholarships at the Huntington Library, California, the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris. He has published widely on aspects of state formation and forms of political resistance in early modern England. He is also co-editor of two essay collections and of a major edition of seventeenth century letters. His most recent publications are God's Fury, England's Fire: a new history of the English civil wars and edited collections on The politics of gesture: historical perspectives and The experience of revolution in Stuart Britain and Ireland, the latter co-edited with David L Smith.

Mike is currently Pro-Vice-Chancellor for the Faculty of Arts and Humanities.

Membership of Professional Bodies

• Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
• Member of the editorial board of Past and Present
• Member of the AHRC Peer Review College

He has in the past served on the editorial board of the Royal Historical Society's Studies in History monograph series, and as a member of the early modern Academic Publication Advisory Panel of The National Archives.

Research

Current Research

The focus of Mike Braddick's current research is on the English civil war and on partisanship in early modern popular culture, in a series of articles examining the relationship between high and low politics. He is also editing The Oxford Companion to the English Revolution and is the principal investigator in a Leverhulme-funded international network on the comparative history of political engagement.

Research Interests

Mike Braddick has research and teaching interests in early modern state formation and political culture; popular politics; the English revolution; the early modern British Atlantic and the first stages of British imperial expansion; and early modern political economy, in particular attitudes towards the commercialisation of the grain trade.

Research Supervision
He is keen to supervise graduate students with interests in these areas and particularly welcomes applications from those interested in the social, cultural and political history of early modern England.

Current PhD Students
Mike Braddick is currently supervising doctoral research on dreams in early modern culture.

Administrative Roles and Responsibilities

Mike Braddick has in the past carried out a number of major administrative roles within the Department, particularly in relation to Undergraduate Admissions (including Senior Admissions Tutor and Tutor for Mature Applications), examinations and assessment, and as Chair of Teaching Committee. In the latter capacity he took a leading role in establishing new mechanisms of Teaching Quality assurance in the Department, and subsequently led the Department's very successful response to two Audits of Teaching Quality. He was Head of Department in 2008-9 and is currently Pro-Vice-Chancellor for the Faculty of Arts and Humanities.

Selected Publications

- The experience of revolution in early Stuart Britain and Ireland: essays for John Morrill (co-edited with David L Smith) (Cambridge University Press, 2011)

- The Politics of Gesture: Historical Perspectives (edited collection) (Oxford University Press for the Past and Present Society, 2009)

- The British Atlantic World, 1500-1800, second edition (co-edited with David Armitage) (Palgrave, 2009)

- God's Fury, England's Fire: a new history of the English civil wars (Penguin, 2008)

- Negotiating Power in Early Modern Society: Order, Hierarchy and Subordination in Britain and Ireland (co-edited with John Walter) (Cambridge University Press, 2001)

- State formation in Early Modern England, c. 1500-1700 (Cambridge University Press, 2000)

- The Nerves of State: Taxation and the Financing of the English State, 1558-1700 (Manchester University Press, 1996)