David Underdown

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David E. Underdown (born August 1925) is a historian of 17th century English politics and culture and Professor Emeritus at Yale University. A native of Britain, Underdown was educated at Oxford University and Yale. His best-known historical works are Revel, Riot, and Rebellion and Fire from Heaven, which won prizes from the North American Conference on British Studies and the New England Historical Association. After retiring from Yale in 1996, Underdown wrote a well-received book about the history of cricket in the Hambledon era, Start of Play.

[edit] Works by Underdown (partial list)

Fire from Heaven: Life in an English Town in the Seventeenth Century. 1992.
A Freeborn People: Politics and the Nation in Seventeenth-Century England. 1996.
Pride's Purge: Politics in the Puritan Revolution. 1971.
Revel, Riot, and Rebellion: Popular Politics and Culture in England, 1603-1660. 1985.
Royalist Conspiracy in England, 1649-1660. 1960.
Start of Play: Cricket and Culture in Eighteenth-Century England. 2000.