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Tim Harris received his BA, MA and PhD from Cambridge University and was a Fellow of Emmanuel College from 1983 before moving to Brown in 1986. He teaches a wide range of courses in the political, religious, intellectual, social and cultural history of early modern England, Scotland and Ireland. A social historian of politics, he has written about the interface of high and low politics, popular protest movements, ideology and propaganda, party politics, popular culture, and the politics of religious dissent during Britain's Age of Revolutions. His books include London Crowds in the Reign of Charles II (Cambridge University Press, 1987), The Politics of Religion in Restoration England (Basil Blackwell, 1990), Politics under the Later Stuarts (Longman, 1993), Popular Culture in England, c. 1500-1850 (Macmillan, 1995), The Politics of the Excluded, c. 1500-1850 (Palgrave, 2001), Restoration: Charles II and His Kingdoms 1660-1685 (Penguin, 2005) and Revolution: The Great Crisis of the British Monarchy, 1685-1720 (Penguin, 2006). He served as an Associate Editor for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and most recently has co-edited the Roger Morrice Entring Book, a lengthy political journal (some of it in shorthand) documenting the trials and tribulations of godly Protestants across Britain and Europe from the late 1670s until the early 1690s (Boydell Press, 2007). He is currently working on a prequel to his books Restoration and Revolution and a study of Prejudice in early modern England. He serves as a resident Faculty Fellow on the Pembroke Campus (holding 'study breaks' for students every Wednesday night in his home) and is Chair of the British Program Committee for the Office of International Programs (overseeing the study-abroad programs in Britain). The recipient of grants and fellowships from the Arts and Humanities Research Board, British Academy, Folger Shakespeare Library, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Huntington Library, the Mellon Foundation, and National Endowment for the Humanities, he has held visiting fellowships at Wolfson College, Oxford and at Merton College, Oxford, and taught at the Folger Institute at the Folger Shakespeare Library.