https://www.worldturnedupsidedown.co.uk/Professor Andrew Hopper is a historian of religion, politics and society in early modern England with research expertise on the British and Irish Civil Wars. He graduated from University of York in 1999 with a doctoral thesis examining the nature of parliamentarian allegiance in civil-war Yorkshire. Thereafter he was a researcher for the JISC-funded Virtual Norfolk Project at the University of East Anglia (2000-2003) and the AHRC-funded High Court of Chivalry Project at the University of Birmingham (2003-2006). He was appointed Lecturer in the Centre for English Local History at the University of Leicester in 2006, where he was promoted to Professor (2018) and Director of the Centre (2020). He moved to Oxford Lifelong Learning in September 2021. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Fellow of the Society for Army Historical Research.
Professor Andrew Hopper
Professor in Local and Social History
Director of Graduate Students (Research)
Andrew has a passion for teaching early modern and local history in small groups to undergraduate and postgraduate students. He is especially committed to public engagement, often through collaborative teaching and research projects with schools and museums. He is the President of the Oxford Branch of the Historical Association and Chair of the Civil War Educators’ Network. Andy is chair of the editorial board of Midland History, a patron of the Naseby Battlefield Project and co-editor of the free popular podcast The World Turned Upside Down. He currently supervises eight doctoral students on early modern British history topics, four within Lifelong Learning and four within the Faculty of History.
Most of Andrew’s research focuses on the British and Irish Civil Wars 1640-1660. He is currently completing his third monograph entitled Widowhood and Bereavement in the English Civil Wars under contract with Oxford University Press. This is based upon the AHRC-funded Civil Wars Petitions Project (2017-2023) for which he was the Principal Investigator. Along with Dr Ismini Pells, he is also co-editing a five-volume book series entitled Conflict, Welfare and Memory during and after the English Civil Wars, 1642–1718, under contract with Taylor & Francis.
Selected books
- The Civil Wars in 100 Objects (History West Midlands, 2025).
- Stewart Beale, Andrew Hopper and Ann Hughes (eds), The Household Accounts of Robert and Katherine Greville, Lord and Lady Brooke at Holborn and Warwick, 1640–1649 (Camden Society, 5th series, 68, 2024).
- David J. Appleby and Andrew Hopper (eds), Battle-Scarred: Mortality, Medical Care and Military Welfare in the British Civil Wars (Manchester University Press, 2018).
- Andrew Hopper and Philip Major (eds), England’s Fortress: New Perspectives on Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax (Farnham: Ashgate, 2014).
- Turncoats and Renegadoes: Changing Sides in the English Civil Wars (Oxford University Press, 2012).
- ‘Black Tom’: Sir Thomas Fairfax and the English Revolution (Manchester University Press, 2007).
Selected articles
- Andrew Hopper, Ismini Pells and Martin Bricknell, ‘Veteran welfare past and present: sociological analysis of the Civil War Petitions, 1642–1718’, Frontiers in Sociology, 10 (2025).
- ‘The politics of military welfare in Yorkshire and the memory of the Civil Wars, 1642–1709’, English Historical Review, 140:604–5 (2025), pp. 628-60.
- ‘“The great blow” and the politics of popular royalism in Civil-War Norwich’, English Historical Review, 133:560 (2018), pp. 32-64.
- ‘Social mobility in the English Revolution: the case of Adam Eyre’, Social History, 38:1 (2013), pp. 26-45.
- ‘The Farnley wood plot and the memory of the civil wars in Yorkshire’, Historical Journal, 45:2 (2002), pp. 281-303.
