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 

I am a committee member of the Oxford Centre for Intellectual History, as well as the editor of our blog. Please get in touch if you would like to be involved with the CIH.

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.