# Timothy J. G. Harris > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Timothy_J._G._Harris > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Timothy_J._G._Harris.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_J._G._Harris > Source revision: 1347926380 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Historian and academic Timothy J. G. Harris Born 1958 (age 67–68) Occupations Historian and academic Title Munro-Goodwin-Wilkinson Professor of European History Children 2 Academic background Alma mater University of Cambridge Doctoral advisor Mark Goldie Academic work Discipline History Sub-discipline Early modern Britain Stuart period Political history Institutions Emmanuel College, Cambridge Brown University **Timothy J. G. Harris** (born 1958)[1] is a British [historian](/source/Historian) of later [Stuart](/source/House_of_Stuart) [Britain](/source/Great_Britain) and the Munro-Goodwin-Wilkinson Professor of European History at [Brown University](/source/Brown_University).[2] ## Life and career A native of [London](/source/London), Tim Harris was educated at the [University of Cambridge](/source/University_of_Cambridge), from which he received a [BA](/source/Bachelor_of_Arts) (1980), [MA](/source/Master_of_Arts) (1984), and [PhD](/source/Doctor_of_Philosophy) (1985).[3] From 1983 to 1986, he was a [fellow](/source/Fellow) at [Emmanuel College, Cambridge](/source/Emmanuel_College%2C_Cambridge).[3] His doctoral [dissertation](/source/Thesis) was published by [Cambridge University Press](/source/Cambridge_University_Press) as *London Crowds in the Reign of Charles II* in 1987.[3] [Mark Goldie](/source/Mark_Goldie) was his doctoral supervisor.[4] Since 1986, Harris has been a member of the faculty of the Department of History at [Brown University](/source/Brown_University).[3] There, he was an [assistant professor](/source/Assistant_professor) from 1986 to 1990; an [associate professor](/source/Associate_professor) from 1990 to 1995; a full [professor](/source/Professor) from 1995; and has been the Munro-Goodwin-Wilkinson Professor in European History from 2004 to the present.[3][5] In 2000, while on sabbatical leave from Brown, Harris held a Charter visiting fellowship at [Wolfson College, Oxford](/source/Wolfson_College%2C_Oxford).[6] Harris' work has focused on the intersection of [high politics](/source/High_politics) with popular politics; popular protest; popular religion; and politics in the [Kingdom of England](/source/Kingdom_of_England), the [Kingdom of Ireland](/source/Kingdom_of_Ireland), and the [Kingdom of Scotland](/source/Kingdom_of_Scotland).[3] His work has mainly focused on the reigns of [Charles II of England](/source/Charles_II_of_England), [James VII and II of Scotland and England](/source/James_II_of_England), [William III of England](/source/William_III_of_England) and [Mary II of England](/source/Mary_II_of_England), and [Anne, Queen of Great Britain](/source/Anne%2C_Queen_of_Great_Britain). Harris is an editor of the book series Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History for [Boydell & Brewer](/source/Boydell_%26_Brewer), and sits on the editorial board of the journal *[The European Legacy](/source/The_European_Legacy)*.[7] ## Personal life Harris has two children with his wife, Beth.[6] ## 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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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. ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [Library author entry](https://josiah.brown.edu/search~S7?/aharris+tim/aharris+tim/1%2C9%2C38%2CB/exact&FF=aharris+tim+1958&1%2C18%2C) 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** [Noel Malcolm, "Reactions to the Restoration", *The Telegraph*, April 3, 2005](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3639719/Reactions-to-the-Restoration.html); [David Jays, "Restoration tragedy", *The Observer*, April 23, 2005](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/apr/24/historybooks.features); [Malcolm Gaskill](/source/Malcolm_Gaskill), ["The Glorious Revolution, by Edward Vallance; Revolution, by Tim Harris"](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 Independent*, Feb. 24, 2006 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-profile_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-profile_3-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-profile_3-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-profile_3-3) [***e***](#cite_ref-profile_3-4) [***f***](#cite_ref-profile_3-5) ["The Directory of Research and Researchers at Brown: Tim Harris"](https://web.archive.org/web/20060903044236/http://research.brown.edu/research/profile.php?id=10087). *research.brown.edu*. 24 August 2007. Archived from [the original](https://research.brown.edu/research/profile.php?id=10087) on 3 September 2006. Retrieved 23 April 2025. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Tim Harris (2019). "Introduction". In [Justin Champion](/source/Justin_Champion); [John Coffey](/source/John_Coffey_(historian)); Tim Harris; [John Marshall](/source/John_Marshall_(historian)) (eds.). *Politics, Religion and Ideas in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Britain: Essays in Honour of Mark Goldie*. Cambridge: [Cambridge University Press](/source/Cambridge_University_Press). p. 5. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["Eighteen Brown Faculty Members Appointed to Named Professorships", brown.edu.](https://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2004-05/04-053.html#Harris) 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-politics_6-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-politics_6-1) Tim Harris (1993). *Politics under the Later Stuarts: Party Conflict in a Divided Society, 1660–1715*. [Pearson Education](/source/Pearson_Education). pp. ix–x. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** ["Tim J G Harris"](https://vivo.brown.edu/display/tgharris). *Researchers@Brown*. Retrieved 23 January 2026. ## External links - [https://research.brown.edu/myresearch/Tim_Harris](https://research.brown.edu/myresearch/Tim_Harris) Authority control databases International ISNI VIAF GND WorldCat National United States France BnF data Netherlands Norway Latvia Israel Catalonia 2 Croatia Academics CiNii Other IdRef Yale LUX --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Timothy J. G. Harris](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_J._G._Harris) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_J._G._Harris?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.