Professor Andrew Hopper

I have a passion for teaching early modern and local history, as well as public engagement and collaborative projects with schools and museums. I am keen to supervise postgraduate research into early modern British history. I am best known for my two monographs 'Black Tom': Sir Thomas Fairfax and the English Revolution (Manchester University Press, 2007) and Turncoats and Renegadoes: Changing Sides in the English Civil Wars (Oxford University Press, 2012). I am currently working on my third monograph Widowhood and Bereavement in the English Civil Wars under contract with Oxford University Press, which is based on the AHRC-funded Civil War Petitions Project (2017-2022) for which I am Principal Investigator. I am also chair of the editorial board of Midland History, a patron of the Naseby Battlefield Project, and Academic Director of the National Civil War Centre, where I was co-curator of the Battle-Scarred exhibition.