{{Short description|Historian and academic}} {{infobox academic |birth_date = {{birth year and age|1958}} |title = Munro-Goodwin-Wilkinson Professor of European History |alma_mater = [[University of Cambridge]] |workplaces = [[Emmanuel College, Cambridge]]<br>[[Brown University]] |doctoral_advisor = [[Mark Goldie]] |occupation = Historian and academic |children = 2 |discipline = [[History]] |sub_discipline = {{hlist|[[Early modern Britain]]|[[Stuart period]]|[[Political history]]}} }} '''Timothy J. G. Harris''' (born 1958)<ref>[https://josiah.brown.edu/search~S7?/aharris+tim/aharris+tim/1%2C9%2C38%2CB/exact&FF=aharris+tim+1958&1%2C18%2C Library author entry]</ref> is a British [[historian]] of later [[House of Stuart|Stuart]] [[Great Britain|Britain]] and the Munro-Goodwin-Wilkinson Professor of European History at [[Brown University]].<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3639719/Reactions-to-the-Restoration.html Noel Malcolm, "Reactions to the Restoration", ''The Telegraph'', April 3, 2005]; [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/apr/24/historybooks.features David Jays, "Restoration tragedy", ''The Observer'', April 23, 2005]; [[Malcolm Gaskill]], [https://web.archive.org/web/20150731012559/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-glorious-revolution-by-edward-vallance-br-revolution-by-tim-harris-526131.html "The Glorious Revolution, by Edward Vallance; Revolution, by Tim Harris"], ''The Independent'', Feb. 24, 2006</ref>
==Life and career==
A native of [[London]], Tim Harris was educated at the [[University of Cambridge]], from which he received a [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]] (1980), [[Master of Arts|MA]] (1984), and [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]] (1985).<ref name="profile">{{cite web | title=The Directory of Research and Researchers at Brown: Tim Harris | website=research.brown.edu | date=24 August 2007 | url=https://research.brown.edu/research/profile.php?id=10087 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060903044236/http://research.brown.edu/research/profile.php?id=10087 | archive-date=3 September 2006 | url-status=dead | access-date=23 April 2025}}</ref> From 1983 to 1986, he was a [[fellow]] at [[Emmanuel College, Cambridge]].<ref name="profile"/> His doctoral [[Thesis|dissertation]] was published by [[Cambridge University Press]] as ''London Crowds in the Reign of Charles II'' in 1987.<ref name="profile"/> [[Mark Goldie]] was his doctoral supervisor.<ref>{{cite chapter|author=Tim Harris|chapter=Introduction|title=Politics, Religion and Ideas in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Britain: Essays in Honour of Mark Goldie |date=2019 |location=Cambridge |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |page=5 |editor1=[[Justin Champion]] |editor2=[[John Coffey (historian)|John Coffey]] |editor3=Tim Harris |editor4=[[John Marshall (historian)|John Marshall]]}}</ref>
Since 1986, Harris has been a member of the faculty of the Department of History at [[Brown University]].<ref name="profile"/> There, he was an [[assistant professor]] from 1986 to 1990; an [[associate professor]] from 1990 to 1995; a full [[professor]] from 1995; and has been the Munro-Goodwin-Wilkinson Professor in European History from 2004 to the present.<ref name="profile"/><ref>[https://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2004-05/04-053.html#Harris "Eighteen Brown Faculty Members Appointed to Named Professorships", brown.edu.]</ref> In 2000, while on sabbatical leave from Brown, Harris held a Charter visiting fellowship at [[Wolfson College, Oxford]].<ref name="politics">{{cite book|author=Tim Harris|title=Politics under the Later Stuarts: Party Conflict in a Divided Society, 1660–1715|date=1993|publisher=[[Pearson Education]]|pages=ix–x}}</ref>
Harris' work has focused on the intersection of [[high politics]] with popular politics; popular protest; popular religion; and politics in the [[Kingdom of England]], the [[Kingdom of Ireland]], and the [[Kingdom of Scotland]].<ref name="profile"/> His work has mainly focused on the reigns of [[Charles II of England]], [[James II of England|James VII and II of Scotland and England]], [[William III of England]] and [[Mary II of England]], and [[Anne, Queen of Great Britain]].
Harris is an editor of the book series Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History for [[Boydell & Brewer]], and sits on the editorial board of the journal ''[[The European Legacy]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Tim J G Harris |url=https://vivo.brown.edu/display/tgharris |website=Researchers@Brown |access-date=23 January 2026}}</ref>
==Personal life== Harris has two children with his wife, Beth.<ref name="politics" />
==Publications==
===Books===
* ''London Crowds in the Reign of Charles II'' (Cambridge University Press, 1987). * Ed., ''The Politics of Religion in Restoration England 1660-1688'', editor with [[Mark Goldie]] and Paul Seaward (Basil Blackwell, 1990) * ''Politics under the Later Stuarts: Party Conflict in a Divided Society, 1660-1715'' (Longman, 1993). * Ed., ''Popular Culture in England, c. 1500-1850'' (Macmillan / St. Martin's Press, 1995). * Ed., ''The Politics of the Excluded, c. 1500-1850'' (Palgrave, 2001). * ''Restoration: Charles II and His Kingdoms, 1660-1685'' (Allen Lane, 2005). * ''Revolution: The Great Crisis of the British Monarchy, 1685-1720'' (Allen Lane, 2006). * Ed., ''The Entring Book of [[Roger Morrice]], 1677-1691'', 7 vols., editor with Mark Goldie (Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 2007, 2009) * Ed., ''The Final Crisis of the Stuart Monarchy: The Revolutions of 1688-91 in their British, Atlantic and European Contexts'', editor with Stephen Taylor (Boydell, 2013). * ''Rebellion: Britain's First Stuart Kings, 1567-1642'' (Oxford University Press, 2014) * ''Politics Under the Later Stuarts: Party Conflict in a Divided Society 1660-1715'' (Routledge, 2015)
===Articles & contributions===
* "The [[Bawdy House Riots of 1668]]", ''Historical Journal'', 29, 3 (1986), pp. 537–556. * "Was the Tory Reaction Popular?: Attitudes of Londoners toward the Persecution of Dissent, 1681-1686", ''London Journal'', 13, 2 (1988), pp. 106–120. * "Talking with Christopher Hill", in G. Eley and W. Hunt, eds., ''Reviving the English Revolution: Reflections and Elaborations on the Work of Christopher Hill'' (Verso, 1988), pp. 99–103, 343–345. * "The Problem of 'Popular Political Culture' in Seventeenth-Century London", ''History of European Ideas'', Vol. 10, No. 1 (1989), pp. 43–58. * "London Crowds and the Revolution of 1688", in Eveline Cruickshanks, ed., ''By Force or By Default? The Revolution of 1688'' (John Donald, 1989), pp. 44–64. * "Enrico VIII", ''Storia e Dossier'' (October, 1991), pp. 67–97. * "From Rage of Party to Age of Oligarchy? Re-thinking the later Stuart and early Hanoverian Period", ''Journal of Modern History'', 64 (1992), pp. 700–720. * "Un Parlamento Contro Il Re: Alle origini della guerra civile inglese", ''Storia e Dossier'' (November, 1992), pp. 67–97. * "Tories and the Rule of Law in the Reign of Charles II", ''The Seventeenth Century'', 8, 1 (1993), pp. 9–27. * "Party Turns? Or, Whigs and Tories Get Off Scott Free", ''Albion'', 25, 4 (1993), pp. 581–590. * "Sobering Thoughts, But the Party is Not Yet Over: A Reply", ''Albion'', 25, 4 (1993), pp. 645–647. * "Propaganda and Public Opinion in Seventeenth-Century England", in Jeremy Popkin, ed., ''Media and Revolution: Comparative Perspectives'' (University of Kentucky Press, 1995), pp. 48–73. * "The Civil War and its Aftermath", ''The European Legacy'', I, 8 (December, 1996), pp. 2284–2289. * "What’s New About the Restoration?", ''Albion'', 29, 2 (1997), pp. 187–222. * "The Parties and the People: The Press, the Crowd and Politics 'Out-of-Doors' in Restoration England" in Lionel Glassey, ed., ''The Reigns of Charles II and James VII and II'' (Macmillan, 1997), pp. 125–51. * "Reluctant Revolutionaries? The Scots and the Revolution of 1688-9", in Howard Nenner, ed., ''Politics and the Political Imagination in Later Stuart Britain: Essays Presented to [[Lois Green Schwoerer]]'' (University of Rochester Press / Boydell and Brewer, 1997), pp. 97–117. * "The British Dimension, Religion, and the Shaping of Political Identities during the Reign of Charles II", in Tony Claydon and Ian McBride, eds., ''Protestantism and National Identity: Britain and Ireland, c. 1650-c.1850'' (Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 131–56. * "The People, the Law and the Constitution in Scotland and England: A Comparative Approach to the Glorious Revolution", ''Journal of British Studies'', 38 (January, 1999), pp. 28–58. * "The Autonomy of English History?", in Glenn Burgess, ed., ''The New British History c. 1500-1707: A Reader'' (I. B. Tauris, 1999), pp. 266–86. * "The Legacy of the English Civil War: Rethinking the Revolution", ''The European Legacy'', 5 (2000), pp. 501–14. * "Understanding Popular Politics in Restoration Britain", in Alan Houston and Steven C. A. Pincus, eds, ''A Nation Transformed: England after the Restoration'' (Cambridge University Press, 2001), pp. 125–53. * "The Leveller Legacy: From the Restoration to the Exclusion Crisis", in Michael Mendle, ed., ''The [[Putney Debates]] of 1647: The Army, the Levellers, and the English State'' (Cambridge University Press, 2001), pp. 219–40. * "Perceptions of the Crowd in later-Stuart London", in J. F. Merritt, ed., ''Imagining Early Modern London: Perceptions and Portrayals of the City from Stow to Strype, 1598-1720'' (Cambridge University Press, 2001), pp. 250–72. * "Incompatible Revolutions?: The Established Church and the Revolutions of 1688-89 in Ireland, England and Scotland", in Allan I. Macinnes and Jane Ohlmeyer eds., ''The Stuart Kingdoms in the Seventeenth Century'' (Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2002), pp. 204–225. * "The Augustan House of Commons", ''Parliamentary History'', 23 (2004), pp. 375–85. * "The Reality Behind the Merry Monarchy", ''History Today'', 55 (June 2005), 40–45. * "In Search of a British History of Political Thought", in David Armitage ed., ''British Political Thought in History, Literature and Theory, 1500-1800'' (Cambridge University Press, 2006), pp. 89–108. * "Politics, Religion and Community in Later Stuart Ireland", in Robert Armstrong, ed., ''Community in early modern Ireland'' (Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2006), pp. 51–68. * "James II, the Glorious Revolution, and the Destiny of Britain", ''Historical Journal'', 51, 3 (2008), 763–75. * "'There is none that loves him but drunk whores and whoremongers': Popular Criticisms of the Restoration Court", in [[Julia Marciari-Alexander]] and Catherine Macleod, eds., ''Politics, Transgression, and Representation at the Court of Charles II'' (Yale University Press, New Haven, 2008), pp. 33–56. * "Restoration Ireland: Themes and Problems", in Coleman Dennehy, ed., ''Restoration Ireland: Always Settling and Never Settled'' (Ashgate, 2008), pp. 1–17. * "'A Sainct in Shewe, a Devill in Deede': Moral Panics and anti-Puritanism in Seventeenth-Century England", in David Lemmings, ed., ''Moral Panics, the Press and the Law in Early Modern England'' (Palgrave, 2009), pp. 97–116. * "The Ends of Life and the Rise of Modernity", ''Journal of Interdisciplinary History'', 41:3 (2010–11), 421–33. * "Popular, Plebeian, Culture: Historical Definitions", in Joad Raymond, ed., ''The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, Volume 1: Beginnings to 1660'' (Oxford University Press, 2011), pp. 50–8. * "England’s 'little sisters without breasts': Shaftesbury and Scotland and Ireland", in John Spurr, ed., ''Anthony Ashley Cooper, The First Earl of Shaftesbury 1621-1683'' (Ashgate, 2011), pp. 183–205.
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==External links== * https://research.brown.edu/myresearch/Tim_Harris
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