After completing his masters and doctorate at the University of Oxford, Bernard Capp went on to teach at the University of Warwick for almost half a century. He has written books on a wide range of early modern English topics including the family, gender, radical movements in the English Revolution, the impact of puritan rule during the interregnum, astrological almanacs, popular literature, and the Cromwellian navy. His Festschrift, The Extraordinary and the Everyday in Early Modern England, was published in 2010.