Christopher Marsh

Christopher Marsh spent nine long, hard years in Cambridge before escaping to Belfast in 1992. He is a social and cultural historian of early modern England and has published work on religion, social relations, gender and music. His most recent book is Music and society in early modern England (Cambridge University Press, 2010). In 2024 he launched a new website that presents the first ever collection of best-selling ballads (sheet songs) from seventeenth-century England, complete with digital images, new recordings and extensive contextual materials: https://www.100ballads.org. He teaches on various subjects, including popular culture, the family, gender relations and the history of museums.