David Underdown
David Edward Underdown (19 August 1925 – 26 September 2009) was a historian of 17th-century English politics and culture and Professor Emeritus at Yale University. Born at Wells, Somerset, Underdown was educated at the Blue School and Exeter College, Oxford. The books "Revel, Riot, and Rebellion" and "Fire from Heaven" won prizes from the North American Conference on British Studies and the New England Historical Association. After retiring from Yale in 1996, Underdown wrote a well-received book about the history of cricket in the Hambledon era, "Start of Play". According to "The Guardian": Historian Phil Withington argued  in 2015 that Underdown's sense of localism has been superseded by new scholarship, as has his sense of popular culture. The 1985 book on "Revel, Riot and Rebellion and The Social History of Politics" was an: John Morrill argues that "Revel, Riot and Rebellion" received much less enthusiastic reviews compared to Underdown's earlier and later books. He concludes it is book that was either published too early or too late.