David Cressy

David Cressy is a British-born historian and Humanities Distinguished Professor of History, formerly at The Ohio State University. His specialty is the social history of early modern England, a topic on which he has published a number of monographs including Birth, Marriage, and Death: Ritual, Religion, and the Life-Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England (Oxford UP, 1997){{cite journal |last=Jones| first=Norman |year=1999 |title=Rev. of Cressy, Birth, Marriage, and Death |journal=The Journal of Modern History |volume=71 |issue=3 |pages=672–74 |jstor=10.1086/235297}} and England on Edge: Crisis and Revolution, 1640–1642 (Oxford UP, 2006).{{cite journal |last=Appleby |first=David J. |year=2007 |title=Rev. of Cressy, England on Edge |journal=Journal of British Studies |volume=46 |issue=1 |pages=175–77 |jstor=10.1086/510945 |doi=10.1086/510945}}

Cressy's work Gypsies: An English History (Oxford UP, 2018) has been described as "an accessible book, which gives us a sympathetic narrative of a people who are very much part of the English story."Jonathan Healey: "Pride and Prejudice on the Road". History Today Vol. 68/10, October 2018, pp. 104–105.