School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
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Centre for the History of the Book

Adam Fox

Social and Economic History

Adam Fox

Adam Fox is a Reader in Economic and Social History whose research interests focus on society and cultural in early modern Britain.  He was awarded the Newling History Prize, Jesus College Cambridge (1986) and has held the Frank Knox Memorial Fellowship, Harvard University (1987-8) and a Research Fellowship at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (1991-4). He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

He explored the relationships between oral, manuscript and printed forms of communication during the early modern period in his book Oral and Literate Culture in England, 1500-1700 (OUP, 2000) and in a collection of essays, edited with Daniel Woolf, The Spoken Word: Oral Culture in Britain, 1500-1850 (MUP, 2002).  Currently he is co-authoring (with Steve Pincus) the volume covering the years 1642-1689 in the New Oxford History of England series.



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