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 interests lie in the political, religious, and intellectual history of the seventeenth century,  and in the 'politics of memory' more generally. My doctoral thesis combines these interests by reconstructing the historical consciousness of Protestant Nonconformists in the later Stuart period. 

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.