University of Oxford History Faculty

Faculty Postholders

DPhil
CUF Lecturer

British intellectual and religious history; the Victorians and the eighteenth century; Historiography

(ed.) Economy, Polity, and Society: British Intellectual History, 1750-1950 . (Cambridge)
Religion and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century England. (Oxford, 1998)
''"Scepticism in excess": Gibbon and eighteenth-century Christianity'', Historical Journal. Vol 41 (1998)
''A history of variations: the identity of the eighteenth-century Church of England'' in Protestantism and National Identity: Britain and Ireland, c.1650 - c.1850. (Cambridge, 1998)
(ed.) History, Religion, and Culture: British Intellectual History, 1750-1800 . (Cambridge, 2000)
''Religious history and the eighteenth-century historian'', Historical Journal. Vol 43 (2000)
'The tyranny of the definite article: some thoughts on the art of intellectual history', History of European Ideas. Vol 28 (2002)
''The performance of pastoral politics: Britten's "Albert Herring"'', History Workshop Journal. Vol 55 (2003)
''Newtonianism and the Enthusiasm of Enlightenment'', Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science . Vol 35 (3) (2004) pp. 645-663
'Cornelius Bayley' in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford, 2004)
'Intellectual History in Britain' in Palgrave Advances in Intellectual History. (2006) pp. 25-48

'Theological Books from the Naked Gospel to Nemesis of Faith' in Books and their Readers in Eighteenth Century England: New Essays. (2001)
The Victorian Eighteenth Century: An Intellectual History. (Oxford, 2007) 190pp.