John Broad MA DPhil

Visiting Academic

Social and Economic History of England especially c.1600-1850; History of social structure, landholding; poverty, welfare and rural housing; livestock and dairy farming.

Biography

I worked for many years on aspects of rural society and social structure in the South Midlands working initially from the rich family and estate archives of the Buckinghamshire Verneys in the 17^th and 18^th centuries on which I wrote my D.Phil. Many projects flowed out from this including work on cattle plague, forest societies and deer hunting, and a regional history of the South Midlands.

Career

1966-9 Senior Student, St. Edmund Hall, Oxford
1969-70 Lecturer in History, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
1970-2009 London Metropolitan University and predecessor institutions. Lecturer/Principal Lecturer/Academic Leader

Qualifications

B.A., M.A., D.Phil. (Oxon)

Research

Parish society and religion c1710 based on the Wake Visitation returns, covering eastern England from the Thames to Humber, with GIS-linked database.
Rural housing and welfare from the late middle ages to 21^st century
The Land Tax c1800 for the analysis of national landholding structures, tenancies patterns, and farm size (with R. W. Hoyle and L Shaw Taylor).

Publications

Selected publications

Broad J. 'Understanding village desertion in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries' in C. Dyer and R. Jones (eds.) Deserted Villages Revisited (University of Hertfordshire Press 2010) pp.121-139.
Broad, J. (ed.) A common agricultural heritage? Revising British and French divergence (Exeter 2009)
Broad J. 'Clergé anglais, agriculture, et société rurale' in F. Quellier & G. Du Ciel à la terre: Clergé et agriculture XVI^e-XIX^e siècle (PUR Rennes 2008)
Broad J. 'Contesting the Restoration Land Settlement? The battle for Regicide lands in Steeple Claydon, Buckinghamshire 1660-1700 and the shaping of a village' Records of Bucks (2006).
Broad J. 'Arthur Young and the Board of Agriculture' Thaer Heute 1 (Berlin 2005) pp.23-33
Broad J. 'Introduction: Rapports à la terre et différenciation social au village (xvi^e-xviii^e siècles)' in N. Vivier (ed.) Ruralité française et britannique XIII^e-XX^e (PUR Rennes 2005) pp.147-51.
Broad J. 'Regional Perspectives and Variations in English Dairying 1650-1850' in R.W. Hoyle ed. People, Landscape, and Alternative Agriculture' (Reading 2004) pp.93-112
Broad J. Transforming English Rural Society: the Verneys and the Claydons 1600-1820 (Cambridge University Press, 2004)
Broad J. 'Housing the rural poor 1650-1850' Agricultural History Review 48 pt 2 (2000.)
Broad J. 'Parish Economies of Welfare, 1650-1834' Historical Journal (1999 no 4 pp.985-1006)
Broad J. 'The fate of the Midland Yeoman: Tenants, Copyholders, and Freeholders as Farmers in North Buckinghamshire 1620-1800' Continuity and Change (1999 no.3) pp.325-47
Airs, M. & Broad J. 'The management of rural building in seventeenth-century Buckinghamshire' Vernacular Architecture 29 (1998 pp. 43-56)

Teaching

Past teaching has involved a wide range of British and European History courses centred on social and economic history in the period 1600-1850

External activities

Chair of Executive Committee, British Agricultural History Society 2009-
Chair, Executive Committee, Buckinghamshire Record Society2007-
Editorial Board, International Review of Regional and Local History 2008-
Visiting Fellow, Centre de Recherches Historiques, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Maison de l'Homme, Paris (2006-7)
Leverhulme Research Fellowship 1999-2000
Visiting Fellow, Huntington Library, San Marino, California 1982