About the Author

David Underdown is Professor of History at Yale University. His other publications include: Fire From Heaven: Life of an English Town in the Seventeenth Century (1992).

Reviews

'the book is worthy of note. Informative.' Local History
`... will become a standard text that no future historian or folklorist can afford to neglect. In hardback it was expensive; now it is in paperback every reader of this journal should read it.' Michael Heaney, Folk Music Journal