Staff profile

A specialist in the history and archaeology of the early modern era (circa 1500-1800 A.D.), Adrian Green’s research focuses on the built evidence for social life, cultural habits, politics, worship and economy in England and English settlement overseas. Building for England: John Cosin's Architecture in Renaissance Durham and Cambridge, was short-listed for the Architectural Historians of Great Britain's Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion for 2017. For many years, he has been working on Dwelling in England: Houses, Society and the Market, 1550-1750, which explores how developments in the form, space and decor of English houses were related to social and economic life. General Editor of the British Record Society Hearth Tax series; he has edited editions of the hearth tax for Durham, Norfolk and Norwich, and is preparing the edition on Northumberland and Newcastle upon Tyne. The hearth tax is a key resource for the study of houses, economy and society in seventeenth-century England. His other research focus is on the central role of regionalisation in the formation of early modern culture. He publishes and leads research on the region of North-East England. Adrian welcomes enquiries from students interested in studying social, economic and cultural history - or historical archaeology - in early modern contexts at MA or PhD level. There is huge potential for studying topics via a focus on North-East England, for which there are many untapped archival resources located in and near to Durham.

• British regional history 1500-1800
• Social & economic history of housing in Britain 1500-1800
• Social & economic history of north-east England 1500-1800
• Architecture and archaeology of the built environment in England and North America, 1500-1800

Authored book

• Green, A. (2016). Building for England: John Cosin's Architecture in Renaissance Durham and Cambridge. Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies

Chapter in book

• Green, A. (2021). Architecture 1600-1760 – The Appeal of Classical Order. In A. Horning (Ed.), A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Enlightenment (131-151). Bloomsbury
• Green, A. (2019). Law and Architecture in Early Modern Durham. In M. Lobban, J. Begatio, & A. Green (Eds.), Law, Lawyers and Litigants in Early Modern England: Essays in Memory of Christopher W. Brooks (265-291). Cambridge University Press
• Green, A. (2018). Durham Ox: Commercial Agriculture in North-East England, 1600-1800. In A. Green, & B. Crosbie (Eds.), Economy and Culture in North-East England, 1500-1800 (44-67). Boydell
• Green, A. (2018). The Big House in the English Provincial Town. In J. Hinks, & C. Armstrong (Eds.), The English Urban Renaissance Revisited (116-143). Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Green, A. (2017). Auckland and Durham Castles in John Cosin's Time. In D. Rollason (Ed.), Princes of the Church: Bishops and their Palaces (332-347). Routledge
• Green, A. (2017). Consumption and Material Culture. In K. Wrightson (Ed.), A Social History of England, 1500-1750 (242-266). Cambridge University Press
• Green, A. (2015). Learning the Tricks of the Northumberland and Newcastle upon Tyne Hearth Tax. In E. Ashton, M. Barke, E. George, & N. McCord (Eds.), A Northumbrian miscellany : historical essays in memory of Constance M. Fraser (106-122). Association of Northumberland Local History Societies
• Green, A. (2010). Heartless and unhomely? Dwellings of the poor in East Anglia and North-East England. In J. McEwan, & P. Sharpe (Eds.), Accommodating poverty: the housing and living arrangements of the English poor, c.1600-1850 (69-101). Palgrave
• Green, A. (2010). Houses and landscape in early industrial County Durham. In T. Faulkner, H. Berry, & J. Gregory (Eds.), Northern landscapes: representations and realities of North-East England (125-140). Boydell & Brewer
• Green, A. (2006). County Durham at the Restoration: a social and economic case study. In A. Green, E. Parkinson, & M. Spufford (Eds.), County Durham hearth tax assessment Lady Day 1666 (xv-xci). British Record Society
• Green, A. (2006). The Durham hearth tax: community politics and social relations. In P. Barnwell, & M. Airs (Eds.), Houses and the hearth tax : the later Stuart house and society (144-154). (150). Council for British Archaeology
• Green, A. (2006). Urban historical archaeology: challenging ambivalence. In A. Green, & R. Leech (Eds.), Cities in the World, 1500-2000 (1-13). Taylor and Francis
• Green, A. (2004). 'A clumsey countrey girl': the material and print culture of Betty Bowes. In H. Berry, & J. Gregory (Eds.), Creating and consuming culture in North-East England, 1660-1830 (72-92). Ashgate Publishing
• Green, A. (2003). Houses in north-eastern England: regionality and the British beyond c.1600-1750. In S. Lawrence (Ed.), Archaeologies of the British : explorations of identity in Great Britain and its colonies, 1600-1945 (55-75). Routledge

Edited book

• Lobban, M., Begatio, J., & Green, A. (Eds.). (2019). Law, Lawyers and Litigants in Early Modern England: Essays in Memory of Christopher W. Brooks. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/978110866682
• Green, A., & Crosbie, B. (Eds.). (2018). Economy and Culture in North-East England, 1500-1800. Boydell
• Green, A., & Pollard, A. (Eds.). (2007). Regional Identities in North-East England, 1300-2000. Boydell & Brewer
• Green, A., & Leech, R. (Eds.). (2006). Cities in the World, 1500-2000: Papers given at the Conference of the Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology, April 2002. Taylor and Francis

Journal Article

• Cherry, M., & Green, A. (2020). Vernacular Architecture at 50: Towards the Study of Buildings in Context. Vernacular Architecture, 50, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/03055477.2019.1663471
• Green, A., & Dixon, J. (2016). Standing Buildings and Built Heritage. Post-Medieval Archaeology, 50(1), 121-133. https://doi.org/10.1080/00794236.2016.1169492
• Adams, C., Douglas-Jones, R., Green, A., Lewis, Q., & Yarrow, T. (2014). Building with History: Exploring the Relationship between Heritage and Energy in Institutionally Managed Buildings. The Historic Environment: Policy & Practice, 5(2), 167-181. https://doi.org/10.1179/1756750514z.00000000053
• Green, A. (2014). Christopher W. Brooks, 1948-2014: A tribute. The Seventeenth Century, 29(4), 403-409. https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117x.2014.971858
• Green, A. (2010). The polite threshold in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain. Vernacular Architecture, 41, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1179/174962910x12838716153646
• Green, A. (2007). Confining the vernacular: the seventeenth-century origins of a mode of study. Vernacular Architecture, 38, 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1179/174962907x247985
• Green, A., & Schadla-Hall, R. (2000). The Building of Quenby Hall, Leicestershire - A Reassessment
• Green, A. (1999). The importance of houses: house and society in anthropology and archaeology. Semiotica, 124, 153-164
• Green, A. (1998). Tudhoe Hall and Byers Green Hall, County Durham: seventeenth and early eighteenth century social change in houses. Vernacular Architecture, 29, 33-42

Other (Digital/Visual Media)

• Green, A., Seaman, P., & Wareham, A. (2024). Norfolk Hearth Tax 1672 and Norwich Hearth Tax 1671. [Data]
• Green, A., Parkinson, E., & Spufford, M. (2006). County Durham Hearth Tax Assessment Lady Day 1666. [Data]

Other (Print)

• Bell, S., & Green, A. (2021). Coal Stories - A trail through Durham's industrial past