Bernard Capp is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Warwick. He is a leading authority on everyday life in early modern England, having written books on 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.

In his contribution for the Research Exchange, he reflects on the subject of early modern siblinghood at the publication of his new book ‘The Ties that Bind: Siblings, Family, and Society in Early Modern England’ (published by Oxford University Press on 12 July 2018).