Dr Simon Skinner
M.A., M.Phil., D.Phil., F.R.Hist.S.
Lecturer (CUF) in History
Email: simon.skinner@balliol.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests
Simon Skinner works on nineteenth-century British political and religious history. He has published on paternalist and reactionary thought in the 1830s and 1840s, and his book on the political and social thought of the Tractarians was published by Oxford University Press in 2004. He contributed a number of individual and group entries to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and is working on a survey of party politics and religion in the 1840s.
Supervision Interests
(Early) nineteenth-century British politics, especially high politics, paternalist and reactionary thought, and religious and ecclesiastical dimensions. Current postgraduate supervision topics include the career and thought of Sir James Graham, Gladstone's historical imagination, and Protestantism and the campaign for the repeal of the Test acts.
Selected Publications:
- 'Newman, the Tractarians and the British Critic', Journal of Ecclesiastical History. Vol 50, 4 (1999) pp. 716-759
- 'Liberalism and Mammon: Tractarian reaction in the Age of Reform', Journal of Victorian Culture. Vol 4, 2 (1999) pp. 197-227
- '"The Duty of the State": Keble, the Tractarians and Establishment' in John Keble in Context. (London, 2004) pp. 33-46
- Tractarians and the 'Condition of England': The Social and Political Thought of the Oxford Movement. (Oxford, 2004) 330pp.
- 'Miscellanous entries on writers, clerics, and motorcycle racers' in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford, 2004)
- 'History versus historiography: the reception of Turner's Newman', Journal of Ecclesiastical History. Vol 61 (2010) pp. 764-81
Future Publications:
- ''Tractarians', 'Noetics' (group entries)' in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford, 2010)
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