Philip Baker, BA (Lond), MA (Sheffield)

Research Officer, Centre for Metropolitan History

Biography

Philip Baker is a Senior Research Officer at the Centre for Metropolitan History, where he has been based since 2003.

Research Interests

Philip's research interests include the social and economic history of early modern London, and the political and religious history of mid seventeenth-century London and England more generally. He has worked on a series of collaborative projects undertaken by the CMH, Birkbeck, University of London, and the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure at the University of Cambridge. These are:

Philip is also a Research Associate of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and a Senior Research Fellow in the Humanities Research Institute at the University of Buckingham.

Publications (Books)

  • People in place: families, households and housing in early modern London (with V. Harding, M. Davies, M. Merry, G. Newton, O. Myhill and R. Smith (CMH: London, 2008).
  • ed., The Levellers: the Putney debates (with an introduction by G. Robertson) (Verso: London, 2007).

Publications (Articles)

  • 'Radicalism in civil war and interregnum England', History Compass, vol.8 no.2 (2010), pp. 152-65
  • 'What was the first Agreement of the People?' (with E. Vernon), Historical Journal, vol.53 no.1 (2010), pp. 39-59
  • "For the house her self and one servant': family and household in late seventeenth-century London' (with M. Merry), London Journal, vol.34 no.3 (2009), pp. 205-32
  • ‘Rhetoric, reality and the varieties of Civil War radicalism’, in J. Adamson, ed., The English Civil War: conflict and contexts, 1640-1649 (Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, 2009).
  • “A despicable contemptible generation of men’?: Cromwell and the Levellers’, in P. Little, ed., Oliver Cromwell: new perspectives (Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke, 2009).
  • ‘The Putney debaters’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online edn, Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2008).
  • ‘Oliver Cromwell, the regicide and the sons of Zeruiah’ (with J. Morrill), in J. Peacey, ed., The regicides and the execution of Charles I (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2001); reprinted in D. L. Smith, ed., Cromwell and the Interregnum: the essential readings (Blackwell: Oxford, 2003).
  • ‘The case of the armie truly re-stated’ (with J. Morrill), in M. Mendle, ed., The Putney debates of 1647: the army, the Levellers and the English state (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2001).

Publications (Forthcoming)

  • ed. (with E. Vernon), Foundations of freedom: the Agreements of the People, the Levellers and the constitutional crisis of the English Revolution (Palgrave Macmillan: Basingstoke).

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