Tim Harris received his BA, MA and PhD from Cambridge University and was a Fellow of Emmanuel College from 1983 before moving to Brown in 1986. He teaches a wide range of courses in the political, religious, intellectual, social and cultural history of early modern England, Scotland and Ireland. A social historian of politics, he has written about the interface of high and low politics, popular protest movements, ideology and propaganda, party politics, popular culture, and the politics of religious dissent during Britain's Age of Revolutions. He edits the book series Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History for Boydell Press and is on the editorial board of the journal The European Legacy.
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Harris, Tim.
"Anti-Catholicism and Anti-Popery in Seventeenth-Century England." Against Popery: Britain, Empire, and Anti-Catholicism, edited by Evan Haefeli, University of Virginia, 2020, pp. 25-50.
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Harris, Tim.
"Constitutional Royalism Re-Considered: Myth or Reality?." Politics, Religion and Ideas in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Britain: Essays in Honour of Mark Goldie, edited by Justin Champion, John Coffey, Tim Harris and John Marshall, Boydell Press, 2019, pp. 19-37.
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Harris, Tim.
"Periodizing the Early Modern: The Historian’s View." Early Modern Histories of Time: The Periodizations of Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England , edited by Kristen Poole and Owen Williams, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019, pp. 21-35, 284-289.
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Politics, Religion and Ideas in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Britain: Essays in Honour of Mark Goldie. edited by Justin Champion, John Coffey, Tim Harris and John Marshall, Boydell Press, 2019.
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Harris, Tim.
"The Right to Bear Arms in English and Irish Historical Context." A Right to Bear Arms? The Contested Role of History in Contemporary Debates on the Second Amendment , edited by Jennifer Tucker, Barton C. Hacker, and Margaret Vining, Smithsonian Institution Press, 2019, pp. 23-36.
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| Harris, Tim. "Publics and Participation in the Three Kingdoms: Was There Such a Thing as “British Public Opinion” in the Seventeenth Century?." Journal of British Studies, vol. 56, no. 4, 2017, pp. 731-753. |
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Harris, Tim.
"Did the English have a Script for Revolution in the Seventeenth Century." Scripting Revolution: A Historical Approach to the Comparative Study of Revolutions , edited by Keith Baker and Dan Edelstein, Stanford University Press, 2015, pp. 25-40.
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Harris, Tim.
"Francophobia in Late-Seventeenth-Century England." Louis XIV Outside In: Images of the Sun King Beyond France, 1661-1715 , edited by Tony Claydon and Charles-Édouard Levillain, Ashgate, 2015, pp. 37-55.
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| Harris, Tim [reviewer]. "Making Ireland English: The Irish Aristocracy in the Seventeenth Century, Jane Ohlmeyer. New Haven:Yale University Press, 2012. 668 pp." Britain and the World, vol. 8, no. 1, 2015, pp. 142-144. |
| Harris, Tim. "Revisiting the Causes of the English Civil War." Huntington Library Quarterly, vol. 78, no. 4, 2015, pp. 615-635. |
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Harris, Tim.
"Sexual and Religious Libertinism in Restoration England." Lord Rochester in the Restoration World , edited by Matthew C. Augustine and Steven N. Zwicker, Cambridge University Press, 2015, pp. 162-183.
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Harris, Tim.
"The Dissolute Court and Retribution." Samuel Pepys: Plague, Fire, Revolution , edited by Margarette Lincoln, Thames and Hudson, 2015, pp. 62-68.
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Harris, Tim.
The Final Crisis of the Stuart Monarchy: The Revolutions of 1688-91 in their British, Atlantic and European Contexts. edited by Tim Harris and Stephen Taylor, Boydell, 2015.
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Harris, Tim.
"The Restoration in Britain and Ireland." The Oxford Handbook of the English Revolution , edited by Michael Braddick, Oxford University Press, 2015, pp. 204-219.
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Harris, Tim.
"Charles I: Has history been too hard on him?." BBC History Magazine, no. January, 2014, pp. 32-37.
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Harris, Tim.
Rebellion: Britain's First Stuart Kings, 1567-1642. Oxford University Press, 2014.
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| Harris, Tim. "Alasdair Raffe . The Culture of Controversy: Religious Arguments in Scotland, 1660–1714 . Studies in Modern British Religious History 28. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2012. xv + 290 pp. $95. ISBN: 978–1–84383–729–9." Renaissance Quarterly, vol. 66, no. 3, 2013, pp. 1047-1048. |
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Harris, Tim.
"Charles I and Public Opinion on the Eve of the English Civil War." The Nature of the English Revolution Revisited , edited by Grant Tapsell and Stephen Taylor, Woodbridge, Boydell Press, 2013, pp. 1-25.
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| Harris, Tim. "Godly kingship in Restoration England. The politics of the royal supremacy, 1660–1688. By Rose. (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History.) Pp. x + 320 incl. frontispiece. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. £60. 978 0 107 01142 7." The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, vol. 64, no. 01, 2013, pp. 190-191. |
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Harris, Tim.
"Scotland under Charles II and James VII and II: In Search of the British Causes of the Glorious Revolution." The Final Crisis of the Stuart Monarchy: The Revolutions of 1688–91 in their British, Atlantic and European Contexts , edited by Tim Harris and Stephen Taylor, Woodbridge, Boydell Press, 2013, pp. 109-132.
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| Harris, Tim. "The Intellectual Culture of Puritan Women, 1558–1680. Edited by Johanna Harris and Elizabeth Scott-Baumann." The European Legacy, vol. 18, no. 1, 2013, pp. 101-102. |
| Harris, Tim. "The Royal Stuarts: A History of the Family that Shaped Britain. By Allan Massie. (New York, NY: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2011. Pp. xiv, 370. $26.99.)." Historian, vol. 75, no. 2, 2013, pp. 392-393. |
| HARRIS, TIM. "James II and the Three Questions - By Peter Walker." Parliamentary History, vol. 31, no. 3, 2012, pp. 484-486. |
| Harris, Tim. "The British Confederate: Archibald Campbell, Marquess of Argyll, c.1607–1661. By Allan Macinnes. Pp. xv, 352. ISBN 9781904607960. Edinburgh: John Donald, 2011. £25.00." The Scottish Historical Review, vol. 91, no. 1, 2012, pp. 182-184. |
| Aho, Kevin, Bleich, Erik, Boghian, Ioana, Brisolin, Viola, Culea, Mihaela, Drugus, Liviu, Evans, Georgina, Harris, Tim, Hawley, William M., Herbst, Marcel, Israeli, Raphael, Kolisnyk, Mary Helen, Mineau, André, Morarasu, Nadia Nicoleta, Murphy, Darryl J., Noonan, Jeff, Papastephanou, Marianna, Pedersen, Jean Elisabeth, Polka, Brayton, Rabbiosi, Chiara, Scheie, Timothy, Shorten, Richard, B. Shostak, Arthur, Shostak, Stanley, Landy, Marcia, Söder, Hans-Peter, Stan, Lavinia, Steinman, Lisa M., Vincent, K. Steven, Ward, Ann, Iii, Samuel C. Wheeler. "Book Reviews." The European Legacy, vol. 16, no. 6, 2011, pp. 811-846. |
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Harris, Tim.
"England’s “little sisters without breasts”: Shaftesbury and Scotland and Ireland." Anthony Ashley Cooper, The First Earl of Shaftesbury 1621-1683 , edited by John Spurr, Ashgate, 2011, pp. 183-205.
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| Harris, T. "James II and the Trial of the Seven Bishops, by William Gibson." The English Historical Review, vol. CXXVI, no. 520, 2011, pp. 700-701. |
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Harris, Tim.
"Popular, Plebeian, Culture: Historical Definitions." The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume 1: Beginnings to 1660 , edited by Joad Raymond, Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 50-58.
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| Harris, T. "Restoration Politics, Religion and Culture, by George Southcombe and Grant Tapsell." The English Historical Review, vol. CXXVI, no. 519, 2011, pp. 442-444. |
| Anderson, Tiffany M. B., Aronson-Lehavi, Sharon, Baragwanath, Emily, Baruchello, Giorgio, Burt, Sally, Chisick, Harvey, Cmeciu, Camelia Mihaela, Cohen, David, Coury, David N., De Vleminck, Jens, Dietrich, Donald J., Doris, Sara, Gubman, Boris, Harris, Tim, Havers, Grant, Höjelid, Stefan, Holden-Reid, Brian, Hurcombe, Martin, Karnicky, Jeff, Kaul, Ashok Kumar, Kingston, Rebecca, Liddel, Peter, Lieberman, Philip, Lim, Walter, Lindsay, Hugh, Mclean, Iain, Meckl, Markus, Mikaberidze, Alexander, Moore, Michael Edward, Muller-Bergh, Klaus, Murphy, Tim, Murphy, Tim, Rindisbacher, Hans J., Roy, Christian, Shostak, Stanley, Shostak, Stanley, Shostak, Stanley, Tarrant, Harold, Tércio, Daniel, Warner, Jonathan, Weakland, John E., Weakland, John E. "Book Reviews." The European Legacy, vol. 15, no. 2, 2010, pp. 241-282. |
| Harris, Tim. "The Ends of Life and the Rise of Modernity." Journal of Interdisciplinary History, vol. 41, no. 3, 2010, pp. 421-433. |
| Harris, Tim. ":The 1549 Rebellions and the Making of Early Modern England. (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History.)." The American Historical Review, vol. 114, no. 3, 2009, pp. 826-827. |
| Banaji, Ferzina, Berghaus, Günter, Bernheim, Mark, Daly, Selena, Di Prima, Sergio, Fullwood, Natalie, Gardini, Nicola, Heynickx, Rajesh, Iamurri, Laura, Landy, Marcia, Merjian, Ara H., Morgan, Philip, Mroz, Matilda, O’Leary, Alan, O’Rawe, Catherine, Renga, Dana, Rinaldi, Lucia, Santovetti, Olivia, Tomkins, David, Barnes, Ian, Baruchello, Giorgio, Bertolini, Joseph C., Betz, Dorothy M., Bhat, Raj Nath, Bryder, Tom, Campion, Edmund J., Campion, Edmund J., Damian, Theodor, Deflem, Mathieu, Dietrich, Donald J., Dietrich, Donald J., Feagin, Susan L., Freeman, David A., Gerner, Kristian, Grabowski, Francis A., Grabowski, Francis A., Guenther, Irene, Harris, Tim, Haus, Heinz-Uwe, Hehir, Aidan, Herbst, Marcel, Jesse, Horst. "Book Reviews." The European Legacy, vol. 14, no. 7, 2009, pp. 881-929. |
| HARRIS, TIM. "God's Fury, England's Fire: A New History of the English Civil Wars - By Michael Braddick." Parliamentary History, vol. 28, no. 2, 2009, pp. 301-303. |
| Harris, Tim. "Scottish Public Opinion and the Anglo-Scottish Union, 1699–1707 . By Karin Bowie. Pp. viii, 193. ISBN: 9780861932894. Royal Historical Society Studies in History, New Series. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2007. £50.00." The Scottish Historical Review, vol. 88, no. 2, 2009, pp. 372-373. |
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Harris, Tim.
"‘A Sainct in Shewe, a Devill in Deede': Moral Panics and anti-Puritanism in Seventeenth-Century England." Moral Panics, the Media and the Law in Early Modern England, edited by David Lemmings, Palgrave, 2009, pp. 97-116.
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| Harris, Tim. "JAMES II, THE GLORIOUS REVOLUTION, AND THE DESTINY OF BRITAIN." Historical Journal, vol. 51, no. 03, 2008. |
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Harris, Tim.
"Restoration Ireland: Themes and Problems." Restoration Ireland: Always Settling and Never Settled , edited by Coleman Dennehy, Ashgate, 2008, pp. 1-17.
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Harris, Tim.
"‘There is none that loves him but drunk whores and whoremongers’: Popular Criticisms of the Restoration Court." , Politics, Transgression, and Representation at the Court of Charles II, edited by Julia Marciari Alexander and Catherine Macleod, Yale University Press, 2008, pp. 33-56.
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Harris, Tim.
The Entring Book of Roger Morrice, 1677-1691. edited by Tim Harris, Boydell Press, 2007.
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Harris, Tim.
"In Search of a British History of Political Thought." British Political Thought in History, Literature and Theory, 1500-1800, edited by David Armitage, Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. 89-108.
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Harris, Tim.
"Politics, Religion and Community in Later Stuart Ireland." Community in Early Modern Ireland , edited by Robert Armstrong and Tadgh Ó hAnnracháin, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2006, pp. 51-68.
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Harris, Tim.
Revolution: The Great Crisis of the British Monarchy, 1685-1720. 2006.
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Harris, Tim.
Restoration: Charles II and his Kingdoms, 1660-1685. Allen Lane, 2005.
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Harris, Tim.
"The Reality Behind the Merry Monarch." History Today, vol. 55, 2005, pp. 40-45.
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| Harris, Tim. ":Aspects of English Protestantism, c. 1530–1700;The Antichrist’s Lewd Hat: Protestants, Papists, and Players in Post‐Reformation England." Journal of Modern History, The, vol. 76, no. 3, 2004, pp. 673-676. |
| Harris, Tim. "The Augustan House of Commons." Parliamentary History, vol. 23, no. 3, 2004, pp. 375-385. |
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Harris, Tim.
"Incompatible Revolutions?: The Established Church and the Revolutions of 1688-89 in Ireland, England and Scotland." The Stuart Kingdoms in the Seventeenth Century , edited by Allan I. Macinnes and Jane Ohlmeyer, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2002, pp. 204-225.
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Harris, Tim.
"'Venerating the Honesty of a Tinker': the King’s Friends and the Battle for the Allegiance of the Common People in Restoration England." The Politics of the Excluded, c. 1500-1850 , edited by Tim Harris, Palgrave, 2001, pp. 195-232.
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Harris, Tim.
"Introduction: The Politics of the Excluded." The Politics of the Excluded, c. 1500-1850 , edited by Tim Harris, Palgrave, 2001, pp. 1-29.
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Harris, Tim.
"Perceptions of the Crowd in Later-Stuart London." Imagining Early Modern London: Perceptions and Portrayals of the City from Stow to Strype 1598-1720 , edited by Julia Merritt, Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press, 2001, pp. 250-272.
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Harris, Tim.
"The Leveller Legacy: From the Restoration to the Exclusion Crisis." The Putney Debates of 1647: The Army, the Levellers, and the English State, edited by Michael Mendle, Cambridge University Press, 2001, pp. 219-240.
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The Politics of the Excluded, c. 1500-1850 . edited by Tim Harris, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2001.
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Harris, Tim.
"Understanding Popular Politics in Restoration Britain." A Nation Transformed: England after the Restoration, edited by Alan Houston and Steven C. A. Pincus, Cambridge University Press, 2001, pp. 125-153.
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Harris, Tim.
"The Legacy of the English Civil War: Rethinking the Revolution." vol. 5, 2000, pp. 501-514.
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Harris, Tim.
"The Autonomy of English History?." The New British History c. 1500-1707: A Reader , edited by Glenn Burgess, I. B. Tauris, 1999, pp. 266-286.
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| Harris, Tim. "The People, the Law and the Constitution in Scotland and England: A Comparative Approach to the Glorious Revolution." Journal of British Studies, vol. 38, 1999, pp. 25-58. |
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Harris, Tim.
"The British Dimension, Religion, and the Shaping of Political Identities during the Reign of Charles II." Protestantism and National Identity: Britain and Ireland, c. 1650-c.1850 , edited by Tony Claydon and Ian McBride, Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp. 131-156.
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Harris, Tim.
"Reluctant Revolutionaries? The Scots and the Revolution of 1688-9." Politics and the Political Imagination in Later Stuart Britain: Essays Presented to Lois Green Schwoerer , edited by Howard Nenner, University of Rochester Press, 1997, pp. 97-117.
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Harris, Tim.
"The Parties and the People: The Press, the Crowd and Politics ‘Out-of-Doors’ in Restoration England." The Reigns of Charles II and James VII and II , edited by Lionel Glassey, Macmillan, 1997, pp. 125-151.
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Harris, Tim.
"What’s New About the Restoration?." Albion, vol. 29, no. 2, 1997, pp. 187-222.
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| Harris, Tim. "The Civil War and its Aftermath." The European Legacy, vol. 1, no. 8, 1996, pp. 2284-2289. |
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Popular Culture in England, c. 1500-1850. edited by Tim Harris, Palgrave Macmillan, 1995.
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Harris, Tim.
"Problematising Popular Culture." Popular Culture in England, c. 1500-1850 , edited by Tim Harris, Macmillan, 1995, pp. 1-27.
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Harris, Tim.
"Propaganda and Public Opinion in Seventeenth-Century England." Media and Revolution: Comparative Perspectives , edited by Jeremy Popkin, University of Kentucky Press, 1995, pp. 48-73.
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Harris, Tim.
"Party Turns? Or, Whigs and Tories Get Off Scott Free." Albion, vol. 25, no. 4, 1993, pp. 581-590.
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Harris, Tim.
Politics under the Later Stuarts: Party Conflict in a Divided Society 1660-1715. Longman, 1993.
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Harris, Tim.
"Sobering Thoughts, But the Party is Not Yet Over: A Reply." Albion, vol. 25, no. 4, 1993, pp. 645-647.
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| Harris, Tim. "Tories and the Rule of Law in the Reign of Charles II." The Seventeenth Century, vol. 8, no. 1, 1993, pp. 9-27. |
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Harris, Tim.
"From Rage of Party to Age of Oligarchy? Re-thinking the later Stuart and early Hanoverian Period." Journal of Modern History, vol. 64, 1992, pp. 700-720.
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Harris, Tim.
"Un Parlamento Contro Il Re: Alle origini della guerra civile inglese." Storia e Dossier, no. November, 1992, pp. 67-97.
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Harris, Tim.
"Enrico VIII." Storia e Dossier, no. October, 1991, pp. 67-97.
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Harris, Tim.
"'Lives, Liberties and Estates': Rhetorics of Liberty in the Reign of Charles II." The Politics of Religion in Restoration England 1660-1688, edited by Tim Harris, Paul Seaward and Mark Goldie, Oxford, UK, Basil Blackwell, 1990, pp. 217-241.
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Harris, Tim.
The Politics of Religion in Restoration England 1660-1688. edited by Tim Harris, Paul Seaward, Mark Goldie, Basil Blackwell, 1990.
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Harris, Tim.
"London Crowds and the Revolution of 1688." By Force or By Default? The Revolution of 1688, edited by Eveline Cruickshanks, Edinburgh, John Donald, 1989, pp. 44-64.
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| "The Problem of “Popular Political Culture” in Seventeenth-Century London." History of European Ideas, vol. 10, no. 1, 1989, pp. 43-58. |
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Harris, Tim.
"Talking with Christopher Hill." Reviving the English Revolution: Reflections and Elaborations on the Work of Christopher Hill , edited by G. Eley and W. Hunt, Verso, 1988, pp. 99-103, 343-345.
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| Harris, Tim. "Was the Tory Reaction Popular?: Attitudes of Londoners toward the Persecution of Dissent, 1681-1686." London Journal, vol. 10, no. 1, 1988, pp. 106-120. |
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Harris, Tim.
London Crowds in the Reign of Charles II: Politics and Propaganda from the Restoration to the Exclusion Crisis. CUP, 1987.
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| Harris, Tim. "The Bawdy House Riots of 1668*." Hist. J., vol. 29, no. 03, 1986, pp. 537. |
1980-83 Department of Education and Science (U.K.), Research Studentship
1985 British Academy Personal Research Grant
1989-90 Charter Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford University
1992 National Endowment for the Humanities - Summer Stipend Award
1993 Fletcher Jones Fellowship, Huntington Library - July/August
1996-7 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
1998 British Academy Travel Grant
1998 Faculty Development Grant, Brown University
2000-3 Arts and Humanities Research Board, major research grant for the Roger Morrice Ent'ring Book project
2006-7 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Folger, D.C.
2008 Visiting Fellowship, Merton College Oxford University
2009 Faculty Fellowship, Cogut Humanities Center, Brown University
2011 Visiting Research Fellowship, Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin
2011-12 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Senior Scholarship, IAS, Princeton
2014-15 Fletcher Jones Foundation Distinguished Fellow, Huntington Library, San Marino, California
Rebellion: Britain's First Stuart Kings (Oxford University Press, 2014)
The Final Crisis of the Stuart Monarchy, ed. with Stephen Taylor (Boydell Press, 2013)
The Entring Book of Roger Morrice, 1677-1691, 6 vols (Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 2007), Volume III: The Reign of James II, 1685-1687, xxvi +394 pp.
Revolution: The Great Crisis of the British Monarchy, 1685-1720 (Penguin, January 2006), xvi + 622 pp
Restoration: Charles II and His Kingdoms 1660-1685 (Penguin, 2005; paperback 2006), xx + 524 pp
The Politics of the Excluded, c. 1500-1850 (Palgrave, 2001), ix + 295 pp
The European Legacy, 5 (2000): Guest Editor, 'Special Issue: The Legacy of the English Civil War', pp. 501-76
Popular Culture in England, c. 1500-1850 (Macmillan / St. Martin's Press, 1995), xi + 293 pp
Politics under the Later Stuarts: Party Conflict in a Divided Society 1660-1715 (Longman, 1993), xii + 260 pp
The Politics of Religion in Restoration England 1660-1688, ed. with Mark Goldie and Paul Seaward (Basil Blackwell, 1990), xii + 259 pp
London Crowds in the Reign of Charles II: Politics and Propaganda from the Restoration to the Exclusion Crisis (Cambridge University Press, 1987; paperback 1990, 2003), xv + 264 pp
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| 1985 | PhD | Cambridge University |
| 1984 | MA | Cambridge University |
| 1980 | BA | Cambridge University |
1989-90 Charter Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford University
1992 Visiting Scholar, Mansfield College, Oxford University (summer)
1993 Fletcher Jones Fellow of the Huntington Library - July/August
1996-7 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
2006-7 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.
2006 John Ben Snow Prize (NACBS book prize) for 2005 for Restoration: Charles II and His Kingdoms, 1660-1685
2008 Trinity Term, Visiting Research Fellow, Merton College, Oxford
2009 Spring, Faculty Fellow, Cogut Humanities Center, Brown University
2011-12, Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
2012 (Easter Term), Senior Visitor, Emmanuel College, Cambridge
2014-15 Fletcher Jones Foundation Distinguished Fellow, Huntington Library, San Marino
North American Conference on British Studies
North East Conference on British Studies
American Friends of the Institute of Historical Research
| HIST 1266C - English History, 1529-1660 |
| HIST 1266D - British History, 1660-1800 |
| HIST 1964D - Women in Early Modern England |
| HIST 1964F - Early Modern Ireland |
| HIST 1964I - England Without a Monarchy: Regicide and Republic, 1649-1660 |
| HIST 2970J - Early Modern British History-Reading |
| HMAN 1974Q - England without a Monarchy: Regicide and Republic, 1649-1660 |
