King's College London

Faculty Member, History

Professor of Modern British History

About

Much of my work has focused on the history of the Church of England in the modern period. Having worked on the nineteenth and later eighteenth centuries, I am currently working on a booklength study of a single parish in the 20th century: Thaxted in Essex, a remarkable centre of Christian socialism. I continue my role as director of the Clergy Database, and will publish with my colleagues on that project on the clergy as a profession in the near future. I am also contributing to a new history of Manchester Church/Cathedral. My edition of correspondence from the Fulham papers relating to the parish of Bethnal Green in the early nineteenth century has just been published as part of a collection to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Lambeth Palace Library.

I remain interested in the wider dynamics of reform in the early nineteenth century in politics and culture more generally, as discussed in the collection Rethinking the Age of Reform which I edited with Joanna Innes in 2003.

In 2010 I was named 'Innovative teacher of the year' at King's College London for my work on podcasts in teaching delivery

Literary Director, Royal Historical Society (http://www.royalhistoricalsociety.org/)

Vice-President, Church of England Record Society (http://www.coers.org/)

Project Director, The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540-1835 (www.theclergydatabase.org.uk)

Co-Investigator, Building on History: The Church in London Knowledge Transfer Fellowship (http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/building-on-history-project/)

Co-editor of series Studies in Modern British Religious History (Boydell) (http://www.boydell.co.uk/store/listCategoriesAndProducts.asp?idCategory=236)

On editorial board of Royal Historical Society Studies in History series (Boydell)

Co-Convenor British History in the Long Eighteenth Century Seminar at Institute of Historical Research, London (http://www.history.ac.uk/events/seminars/107)

Co-Convenor Modern Religious History Seminar at Institute of Historical Research, London (http://www.history.ac.uk/events/seminars/139)

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