David Underdown
Encyclopedia
David E. Underdown was a historian of 17th-century English
politics and culture and Professor Emeritus at Yale University
. Born at Wells, Somerset, Underdown was educated at the Blue School and Exeter College, Oxford
. His best-known historical works are Revel, Riot, and Rebellion and Fire from Heaven, which won prizes from the North American Conference on British Studies and the New England Historical Association. After retiring from Yale in 1996, Underdown wrote a well-received book about the history of cricket
in the Hambledon
era, Start of Play.
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
politics and culture and Professor Emeritus at Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
. Born at Wells, Somerset, Underdown was educated at the Blue School and Exeter College, Oxford
Exeter College, Oxford
Exeter College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England and the fourth oldest college of the University. The main entrance is on the east side of Turl Street...
. His best-known historical works are Revel, Riot, and Rebellion and Fire from Heaven, which won prizes from the North American Conference on British Studies and the New England Historical Association. After retiring from Yale in 1996, Underdown wrote a well-received book about the history of cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
in the Hambledon
Hambledon Club
The Hambledon Club was a social club that is famous for its organisation of 18th century cricket matches. By the late 1770s it was the foremost cricket club in England.-Foundation:...
era, Start of Play.
Books by Underdown (partial list)
- Somerset in the Civil War and Interregnum Newton Abbot, 1973.
- Fire from Heaven: Life in an English Town in the Seventeenth Century. 1992.
- A Freeborn People: Politics and the Nation in Seventeenth-Century England. 1996.
- Pride's Purge: Politics in the Puritan Revolution. Oxford, 1971.
- Revel, Riot, and Rebellion: Popular Politics and Culture in England, 1603-1660. OUP, 1985.
- Royalist Conspiracy in England, 1649-1660. New Haven, 1960.
- Start of Play: Cricket and Culture in Eighteenth-Century England. 2000.
Articles by Underdown
- 'A Case Concerning Bishops' lands: Cornelius Burges and the Corporation of Wells', Eng H.R.lxxviii (1963) 18-48
- 'The Chalk and the Cheese: Contrasts among the English Clubmen', P&Pno.85 (Nov 1979), 25-48
- 'Honest Radicals in the Counties, 1642-1649', in Puritans and Revolutionaries, ed. Pennington and Thomas, pp.186-205.
- 'The Problem of Popular allegiance in the Civil War', TRHS5th Ser., xxxi (1981), 69-94.
- 'The Taming of the Scold: The Enforcement of the Patriarchal Authority in Early Modern England', in Order and Disorder in Early Modern England, ed. Anthony Fletcher and John Stevenson, Cambridge (1985), ch.4.
External links
- David Underdown obituary—Historian of early modern England who wrote a key work on the Puritan revolution, The GuardianThe GuardianThe Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
, 27 October 2009. - Underdown's page at Yale