Lecturer, Lancaster University

Jenni Hyde is Lecturer in Early Modern History at Lancaster University. She works mainly on Tudor and Stuart history, and in particular, sixteenth-century ballads in print, manuscript and the oral tradition. She is the author of two books, Singing the News: Ballads in Mid-Tudor England and John Balshaw’s Jigge: Revelry and Royalism in Restoration Lancashire, and is a co-author of the forthcoming Cambridge Element Communicating the News in Early modern Europe. Her current research investigates the role of ballads and noise in shaping group identity during the Pilgrimage of Grace.

She is committed to sharing her research with the public and is heavily involved with the Historical Association, for whom she served as Associate Vice President from 2016-2019. She is currently a Trustee sitting on their Higher Education Committee and chairs the editorial board of their members’ journal, The Historian.