Professor Mike Braddick

I studied at Cambridge University during the 1980s before taking up teaching positions in the USA. In 1990 I moved to the University of Sheffield, where I worked for 34 years before coming to All Souls in 2024. I have held visiting positions in Germany, France, Australia and USA. My interests lie in early modern English history and its connections with wider British, Imperial and Atlantic histories, and I work at the intersection of economic, social and political history. I am currently working on two projects: a book on England in the 1650s, England’s Freedom, along with interpretive essays on the place of the English revolution in British history and the comparative history of revolution; and work on the politics of bread and the grain supply, related to an AHRC-funded project, ‘The politics of the English grain trade, 1315-1815’. These two strands of work are connected by an interest in state formation, popular politics and British history considered over the long-run and in comparative perspective.