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Department of History

Dr Lucy Underwood

Lucy Underwood       Office:
Email:		 H343, third floor of the Humanities Building Extension
L.Underwood@warwick.ac.uk

 

Academic Profile

  • 2021 - Honorary Research Fellow, University of Warwick
  • 2016-2021: Leverhulme Early Career Fellow for the project "Imagining Englands: Confessionalisation, Catholicism and National Identity after the English Reformation", University of Warwick
  • 2014-2016: Undergraduate Supervisor, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge
  • 2014-2015: History Lecturer, Anglia Ruskin University
  • 2013-2013: Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Catholic Studies, University of Durham
  • 2012-2013: Lecturer, University of Cambridge History Summer School
  • 2008-2011: PhD, thesis title "Childhood, Youth and Catholicism in England, c.1558-1660", Magdalene College, University of Cambridge
  • 2007-2008: MPhil in Theology and Religious Studies (Church History), Magdalene College, University of Cambridge
  • 2002-2005: BA in History and English, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford

 
Teaching

 
Publications

Childhood, Youth, and Religious Dissent in Post-Reformation England

Books:

  • Childhood, youth, and religious dissent in post-reformation England (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
  • T.M. Berner & Lucy Underwood (eds.) Childhood, youth and religious minorities in Early Modern Europe (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
  • Lucy Underwood (ed.) A Cultural History of Youth in the Renaissance: Bloomsbury Cultural History of Youth Volume 3 (General Editors Heidi Morrison & Stephanie Olsen) (London: Bloomsbury 2023)

Articles and book chapters:

Forthcoming:

  •  ‘Law, nationhood and religion: Trial defences of English priests, 1585-1650, forthcoming in English Historical Review 2024

Published

  • ‘Belief and Ideology’ in L. Underwood (ed.) A Cultural History of Youth in the Renaissance (London: Bloomsbury, 2023)

  • Critical bibliography: ‘Early Modern Catholic Literature’ for Oxford Bibliographies. Forthcoming in 2022. Co-authored with Eilish Gregory.

  • ‘Representing England in Rome: sermons from the early modern English College to popes and cardinals’ in Reformation and Renaissance Review 23:1 (2021) 4-26
  • T.M. Berner & Lucy Underwood (eds.) Childhood, youth and religious minorities in Early Modern Europe (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)

  • ‘Childhood, Family and the Construction of English Catholic Histories of Persecution' in Berner & Underwood, Childhood, youth and religious minorities in Early Modern Europe pp. 223-253

  • ‘Catholics’ in Anna French (ed.), Early modern childhood: an introduction (London: Routledge, 2019)

  • ‘Sion and Elizium: National Identity, Religion, and Allegiance in Anthony Copley's A Fig for Fortune’ , Renaissance and Reformation, 41.2 (2018) 65-96

  • 'The State, Childhood and Religious Dissent' in Hannah J. Crawforth and Sarah Lewis (eds.) Family politics in early modern literature (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), pp. 191-210

  • 'Persuading the queen’s majesty’s subjects from their allegiance: treason, reconciliation and confessional identity in Elizabethan England', in Historical Research 89:244 (May 2016)

  • ‘English Catholic Martyrs’ in Gareth Atkins (ed.) Making and remaking saints in nineteenth-century Britain (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016)

  • Childhood, Youth and Religious Dissent in Post-Reformation England (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
  • 'Catechesis, socialisation and play in a Catholic household, c.1660: the 'Children's Exercises' from the Blundell papers', in Studies in Church History 50 (2014) pp.
  • 'Recusancy and the Rising Generation', Recusant History 31:4 (October 2013) pp.511-33
  • 'Youth, Religious Identity and Autobiography at the English Colleges in Rome and Valladolid, 1592-1685', Historical Journal, 55:2 (June 2012) pp.349-74
  • Contributed two articles to Treasures of Ushaw College: Durham's Hidden Gem edited by James E. Kelly (London, 2015)

Wider Engagement

Broadcasts:

  • July 2017 Interviewed on ‘When Greeks Flew Kites’ for BBC Radio 4
  • October 2018 Interviewed on Free Thinking for BBC Radio 3
  • March 2022 Interviewed for Radio Maria England
  • May 2023 Interviewed for Warwick History Hour podcast

Speaking engagements:

  • July 2023: Workshop at University of Warwick Summerschool for Year 8 students
  • July 2021: Worksop (online) for Year 8 students at Woodside School
  • November 2020: Presentation for Stoneleigh History Society (via Zoom)

  • July 2019: Workshop at University of Warwick Summerschool for Year 12 School Students

  • February 2019 Talk given for Warwick Local History Society
  • March 2018 Talk given to students at The King’s School, Warwick
  • Feburary 2018 Talk given to students at St Columba’s College, St Albans
  • January 2018 Talk given to students at Nicholas Breakspear School, St Albans

Writing:

  • The Guest of Night, historical novel (EnRoute Books & Media, 2021)