Skip to main content
Overview

Dr Adrian Green

Associate Professor (Early Modern British and American History)


Affiliations
AffiliationTelephone
Associate Professor (Early Modern British and American History) in the Department of History+44 (0) 191 33 41050
Member of the Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 

Biography

A specialist in the history and archaeology of the early modern era (circa 1500-1800 A.D.), Adrian Green’s research focuses on the built evidence for social life, cultural habits, politics, worship and economy in England and English settlement overseas. Building for England: John Cosin's Architecture in Renaissance Durham and Cambridge, was short-listed for the Architectural Historians of Great Britain's Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion for 2017. For many years, he has been working on Dwelling in England: Houses, Society and the Market, 1550-1750, which explores how developments in the form, space and decor of English houses were related to social and economic life. General Editor of the British Record Society Hearth Tax series; he has edited editions of the hearth tax for Durham, Norfolk and Norwich, and is preparing the edition on Northumberland and Newcastle upon Tyne. The hearth tax is a key resource for the study of houses, economy and society in seventeenth-century England. His other research focus is on the central role of regionalisation in the formation of early modern culture. He publishes and leads research on the region of North-East England. Adrian welcomes enquiries from students interested in studying social, economic and cultural history - or historical archaeology - in early modern contexts at MA or PhD level. There is huge potential for studying topics via a focus on North-East England, for which there are many untapped archival resources located in and near to Durham.

Research interests

  • British regional history 1500-1800
  • Social & economic history of housing in Britain 1500-1800
  • Social & economic history of north-east England 1500-1800
  • Architecture and archaeology of the built environment in England and North America, 1500-1800

Publications

Authored book

Chapter in book

Edited book

Journal Article

Other (Digital/Visual Media)

Other (Print)

Supervision students