Reader in Early Modern History

Contact Details 

• Tel: +44 (0)116 252 5064
• Email: na47@le.ac.uk
• Office: Room 202, 1 Salisbury Road
• Office Hours: Semester 2,  Monday 11am-1pm

Biography

I gained my first degree at Durham University and my doctorate at Christ Church, Oxford. I have taught History at several British Universities since the 1980s, and most recently held Lectureships at Luton and then Warwick before I came to Leicester in 2001.

Research

• Research Interests
• Publications

PhD Supervision

Clerical politics (either in France or Britain) during the long eighteenth-century; the Churches' relationship with the Enlightenment; inter-denominational relationships; and the role of royal courts.

Teaching

HS1100 People & Places: Daniel Finch 2nd Earl of Nottingham
HS2306 France in the Reign of Louis XV
HS3684 Jacobitism in Britain and Europe 1688-1808

Administrative Responsibilities

• Member of School Postgraduate Committee

Most Recent Publications

1. Art and Religion in eighteenth-century Europe (348pp., Reaktion Books: London, 2009).
2. Christianity in Revolutionary Europe, 1750-1830 (396pp., Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2003).
3. The French Revolution 1789-1802: Liberty, authority and the search for stability, 1789-1804 (336pp., Palgrave/Macmillan: Basingstoke, 2004).