Michael Braddick
FBA, FRHistS
Senior Research Fellow since 2024
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 attempts to characterise and explain the distinctive British path to nineteenth-century modernity, and to integrate the history of popular politics into discussion of these macro-historical questions.
Contact:mike.braddick@all-souls.ox.ac.uk
- Temporary Lecturer, Lecturer (1992), Senior Lecturer (1998) and Professor (2001), Department of History University of Sheffield (from 1990 to 2024)
- Assistant Professor, Birmingham Southern College, Alabama (from 1989 to 1990)
- Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Alabama (from 1988 to 1989)
- King‘s College, Cambridge, PhD (from 1984 to 1988)
- King’s College, Cambridge, BA (from 1981 to 1984)
- The English revolution and the comparative history of revolution
- The history of the English grain trade, c. 1315-1815
- British history over the longue durée
- Christopher Hill: the life of a radical historian, Verso, 2025
- The common freedom of the people: John Lilburne and the English revolution, Oxford University Press, 2018
- The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution, Oxford University Press, 2015
- God’s Fury, England’s Fire: a new history of the English civil wars, Allen Lane, 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.1550-1700, Cambridge University Press, 2000
- Fellow of the British Academy
- Editorial Board, Past and Present
- Series Editor, Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History, CUP
- 2022-24 Wolfson/British Academy Research Professor
- 2022-26 AHRC Standard Research Grant ‘The politics of the English grain trade, 1315-1815’
- 2014 British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship
- 2013 Distinguished Visiting Fellow, ARC Centre for the History of Emotions, University of Adelaide
- 2012 AHRC speculative research grant, ‘Participating in Search Design: A Study of George Thomason's English Newsbooks’
- 2011 Leverhulme International Network Grant: ‘The comparative history of political engagement’
- 2011 Professeur associé, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
- 2004-7 Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship
- 1999 Visiting Fellow, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt
- 1995-96 Nuffield Foundation Social Science Fellow
- 1991-92 British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Sheffield
- 1988 Bankhead Fellow, University of Alabama
- 1987 Thirlwall Studentship, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge