Other Publications

Books

2020: The Edited Collection: Pasts, Present and Futures (Cambridge University Press). [Read a summary].

2017: Church and Patronage in 20th Century Britain. Walter Hussey and the arts (Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan) [See a summary.]

2015: Archbishop Ramsey: the shape of the church [one of Ashgate’s series on the archbishops of Canterbury. See a summary]

Articles and book chapters

2022 (forthcoming): ‘”Poet of church and state”: C. H. Sisson and the Church of England’ in Victoria Moul and John Talbot (eds), C. H. Sisson Reconsidered (Palgrave Macmillan)

2021: ‘Theology, providence and Anglican-Methodist reunion: the case of Michael Ramsey and E. L. Mascall’, in Jane Platt and Martin Wellings (eds), Anglican-Methodist Ecumenism: The Search for Church Unity, 1920-2020 (Routledge), pp.102-17.

2021: ‘Eric Mascall and the responsibility of the theologian in England, 1962-1977’, International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church. Read the version of record (£) at DOI: 10.1080/1474225X.2022.2014243, or an Open Access PDF.

2021: ‘Digital archaeology in the web of links: reconstructing a late-90s web sphere’ in Gomes, Demidova, Winters and Risse (eds), The past Web: exploring Web archives (Springer), pp.155-64. [ Open Access PDF, publisher’s version of record (£) ]

2020: ‘Parliament and the law of the Church of England, 1945-74’ in Rodger, Williamson and Grimley (eds), The Church of England and British Politics since 1900 (Boydell and Brewer), pp.181-98. Read an abbreviated version.

2017: ‘Religious discourse in the archived web: Rowan Williams, archbishop of Canterbury, and the sharia law controversy of 2008’ in The Web as History: the first two decades (edited by Niels Brügger and Ralph Schroeder, UCL Press). See this post or the free PDF download.

2013: (with John Maiden) ‘Parliament, the Church of England and the last gasp of political Protestantism, 1961-4’, Parliamentary History, 32:2, 361-377 
[Read it here. (DOI: 10.1111/1750-0206.12020) ]

2012: ‘The archbishops of Canterbury, the Lord Chamberlain and the censorship of the theatre, 1909-49’, Studies in Church History 48, pp.437-448. Read it here

2012: ‘ George Bell, John Masefield and The Coming of Christ: context and significance’ in Andrew Chandler (ed.), The Church and Humanity. The Life and Work of George Bell, 1883-1958, Ashgate, pp.47-57 (ISBN: 978-1-40942-556-4). This is a revised version of the article first published in Humanitas (see 2009 below).

2010:  ‘Archbishop Temple’s offer of a Lambeth degree to Dorothy L. Sayers’ (edition and introduction) in Barber, Taylor and Sewell (eds), From the Reformation to the Permissive Society (Church of England Record Society, 2010) pp.565-82.  [Read it here] (ISBN: 978-1-84383-558-5)

2009:  ‘George Bell, John Masefield and ‘The Coming of Christ’: context and significance’, Humanitas. The Journal of the George Bell Institute 10:2 (2009) [Full text in SAS-Space ]

2009: (with Ian Jones), “New Music and the ‘Evangelical Style’ in the Church of England 1958-1990” in Mark Smith (ed.), British Evangelical Identities (Carlisle, Paternoster Press, 2009), pp.167-79. [Full text in SAS-Space ] (ISBN: 978-1-84227-390-6)

2008: “The “revival” of the visual arts in the Church of England, c.1935-c.1956″, in Studies in Church History 44 (2008), 297-306. [Full text in SAS-Space.]

2008: “‘Beauty, utility and “Christian civilisation”: the Church of England and war memorials, 1940-47’, in Forum for Modern Language Studies, 44;2 (2008) 199-211. Version of record online for subscribing institutions; read the final version in proof here.]

2007: (co-authored with Ian Jones, Director of the St Peter’s Saltley Trust), “Expressions of Authenticity: Music for Worship” in Jane Garnett, Matthew Grimley, Alana Harris, William Whyte, Sarah Williams (eds), Redefining Christian Britain: Post-1945 perspectives (SCM Press, 2007) [Full text on SAS-Space]

2006: (with Ian Jones), ‘Anglican “Establishment” Reactions to “Pop” Church Music in England, c.1956-1991’ in Kate Cooper and Jeremy Gregory (eds), Elite and Popular Religion (Studies in Church History 42, 2006) pp.429-441. [Full text available on SAS-Space.]

2006: (with Ian Jones), ‘The theological problem of popular music for worship in contemporary Christianity’, Crucible. The journal of Christian social ethics (July-Sept). [Full text available in SAS-Space.]