Dr Jenni Hyde is a historian of Tudor and Stuart England with a specialism in popular song. Although her academic training is in history, she has a background in folk music and is a classically-trained soprano with a teaching qualification in music. She is therefore uniquely placed to explore the soundscapes of early modern ballads, the pop songs of their day.
She is particularly interested in how the performance of popular song adds to our understanding of Tudor and Stuart news culture: how did tunes help people to remember songs? What was the meaning of music? Did songs move people to action or debate? And where do ballads fit among the various types of cheap print available in the 16th and 17th centuries? These are some of the questions that engage her research and, occasionally, keep her awake at night!
Experience
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–presentLecturer in Early Modern History, Lancaster University
Education
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2015University of Manchester, PhD
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2000Edge Hill University, PGCE
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1997University of Manchester, BA
Publications
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2022'Popular Propaganda: John Heywood's Wedding Ballad adn Mary I's Spanish Match, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society
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2021'Gender, Authority and the Image of Queenship in English and Scottish Ballads, History
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2021'Mere Clpatrap Jumble': Music and Tudor Cheap Print, Renaissance Studies
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2021John Balshaw's Jigge: Revelry and Royalism in Restoration Lancashire, Lancaster University Regional Heritage Centre
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2018Singing the News: Ballads in Mid-Tudor England, Routledge
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2016'Verse Epitaphs and the Memorialisation of Women in Reformation England', Literature Compass
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2015'William Elderton's Ladie Marques Identified', Notes and Queries
Professional Memberships
- Royal Historical Society
- The Historical Association
- Lancaster
- Website
- @wallyberry
- Article Feed
- ORCID
- Joined
