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.]