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Trained as an urban historian, Christian Liddy wrote his first book on relations between major provincial cities and the English crown during the Hundred Years War. The book has recently been re-published in paperback. After this study of English towns his interests widened to encompass other kinds of semi-autonomous and privileged spaces, notably the palatinate of Durham, on which he wrote his second book. Since then he has returned to the city and his next major research project is a study of urban political culture in late medieval England. He has a particular interest in urban revolt and popular protest. He is an associate editor of the journal Urban History, for which he writes an annual review of the periodical literature covering the medieval period (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012). He is also a member of the organising committee of the Pre-Modern Towns conference, which is held annually at the IHR.

Publications Books: authored Christian D. Liddy (2008). The Bishopric of Durham in the Late Middle Ages: Lordship,Community and the Cult of St Cuthbert. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. Liddy, C. (2005). War, Politics and Finance in Late Medieval English Towns: Bristol, York and the Crown, 1350-1400. Woodbridge, England: Boydell Press. Books: edited Liddy, C. & Dodds, B. (2011). Commercial Activity, Markets and Entrepreneurs in the Middle Ages: Essays in Honour of Richard Britnell. Boydell Press. Liddy, C.D. & R.H. Britnell (2005). North-east England in the Later Middle Ages. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer. Essays in edited volumes Liddy C. D. (2011). \'"Bee war of gyle in borugh". Taxation and political discourse in late medieval English towns\'. In The Languages of Political Society, Western Europe, 14th -17th Centuries. Andrea Gamberini, Jean-Philippe Genet & Andrea Zorzi Viella. 461-485. Liddy C. D. (2011). \'Bill casting and political communication: A public sphere in late medieval English towns?\'. In La Gobernanza de la Ciudad Europea en la Edad Media. Jesus Angel Solorzano Telechea & Beatriz Arizaga Bolumburu Instituto de Estudios Riojanos. 447-61. Liddy C. D. (2011). \'Political Contract in Late Medieval English Towns\'. In Avant le Contrat Social: Le Contrat Politique dans l’Occident médiéval XIIIe-XVe siècle. Francois Foronda Paris: Publications de la Sorbonne. 397-416. (co-authored with Matthew Holford and Andy King) (2007). North-East England in the late middle ages: rivers, boundaries and identities, 1296-1461. In Regional Identities in North-East England, 1300-2000. Adrian Green & A.J. Pollard Boydell. 27-47. C.D. Liddy (2007). William Frost, the City of York and Scrope\'s rebellion of 1405. In Richard Scrope: Archbishop, Rebel, Martyr. P.J.P. Goldberg Stamford: Shaun Tyas. 64-85. Liddy, C. (2006). The politics of privilege: Thomas Hatfield and the palatinate of Durham, 1345-81. In Fourteenth Century England IV. J.S. Hamilton Woodbridge, England: Boydell & Brewer. 61-79. Liddy, C. (2005). Land, legend and gentility in the Palatinate of Durham: the Pollards of Pollard Hall. In North-East England in the Later Middle Ages. C.D. Liddy & R.H. Britnell Woodbridge, England: Boydell Press. 75-95. Liddy, C. (2004). Bristol and the crown, 1326-31: local and national politics in the early years of Edward III’s reign. In Fourteenth Century England III. W.M. Ormrod Woodbridge, England: Boydell & Brewer. 47-65. Journal papers: academic Liddy, Christian & Haemers, Jelle (2013). Popular Politics in the late medieval city: York and Bruges. The English Historical Review 128(533): 771-805. Liddy C. D. (2012). Urban politics and material culture at the end of the Middle Ages: the Coventry tapestry in St Mary\'s Hall. Urban History 39(2): 203-224. Liddy, C. & Steer, C. (2010). \'John Lord Lumley and the creation and commemoration of lineage in Early Modern England\'. The Archaeological Journal 167: 197-227. Liddy, C. (2003). Urban conflict in late fourteenth-century England: the case of York in 1380-1. English Historical Review 118(475): 1-32.