Matthew Leech-Gerrard

Research Topic

Nonconformists and their Pasts: The Historical Construction of Dissenting Identities in the British Atlantic World, 1660-1714

Supervisors: Dr Grant Tapsell and Dr George Southcombe 

My research is generously funded by the Dacre Trust and New College, Oxford, where I teach Early Modern British History.

Publications

'Early Quaker Uses of History: "The Spirit of the Martyrs Revived"', Journal of Ecclesiastical History (forthcoming).

'The Politics of Religion in Post-Revolutionary England: The Strange Case of Edward Stephens', English Historical Review (forthcoming).

Prizes

The Roger F. Pooley Early Career Essay Prize, International John Bunyan Society, 2025.