Christian Liddy

Christian is Professor of Late Medieval History at the University of Durham. His first book was War, Politics and Finance in Late Medieval English Towns: Bristol, York and the Crown, 1350–1400 (Woodbridge, 2005). His second book was The Bishopric of Durham in the Late Middle Ages (Woodbridge, 2008). In 2015 Christian co-curated the ‘Magna Carta and Changing Face of Revolt’ exhibition at Palace Green Library, Durham. His most recent book is Contesting the City: The Politics of Citizenship in English Towns, 1250–1530 (Oxford University Press, 2017). He was an advisor to the ‘England’s Immigrants 1330–1550’ project at the University of York. Christian’s current interests lie in the relationship between ideas of citizenship and practices of resistance.