Michael Braddick is Professor of History at the University of Sheffield, and has held academic positions and visiting Fellowships in the USA, Australia, France, and Germany. He has written extensively on the social, economic and political life of early modern England, Britain and the Atlantic, particularly in relation to state formation, popular politics and the English revolution. His books include The Common Freedom of the People: John Lilburne and the English Revolution, God's Fury, England's Fire: A New History of the English Civil Wars, and A Useful History of Britain: The Politics of Getting Things Done.
