Professor Richard Cust BA, PhD

Professor Richard Cust

Department of History
Emeritus Professor

Contact details

Telephone
+44 (0)121 4145764
Email
r.p.cust@bham.ac.uk
Address
Arts Building
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

I am professor of early modern history at the University of Birmingham, specialising in the political and cultural history of late sixteenth and early seventeenth century England.

Other activities

Along with Dr Andrew Hopper of the University of Leicester, Richard Cust has developed the Court of Chivalry web site www.birmingham.ac.uk/court-of-chivalry  which provides calendared, electronically searchable, transcripts of proceedings for over 700 cases heard in court between 1634 and 1640.

He is also (with Dr Stephen Roberts of the History of Parliament), editor of the journal Midland History.

Publications

Richard Cust’s main publications include:

  • Charles I. A Political Biography. (Longman/Pearson, 2005)
  • Politics, Religion and Popularity (Cambridge, 2002) (edited with Thomas Cogswell & Peter Lake)
  • The Forced Loan and English Politics 1626-1628 (Oxford University Press, 1987)
  • Conflict in Early Stuart England (edited with Ann Hughes) (Longman, 1989

Expertise

Society and politics of late 16th and early 17th century England