Deacon Eugene Lyutko is a fellow in the Research center for the History of Theology and Theological Education at Saint Tikhon’s Orthodox University, Moscow and a PhD student in Theology at the University of Vienna. He researching modern history of Orthodox Christianity in Russia in intellectual, institutional and comparative aspects. I was very impressed…
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Khazaria and Russia in the Notitiae Episcopatuum
Alex Feldman is a final-year PhD candidate at the University of Birmingham’s Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies. This essay is adapted from the presentation he recently gave at the Ecclesiastical History Society Postgraduate Conference at Newman University, Birmingham, on 7 March, 2018 Byzantium (the Christian Roman empire) and Russia are frequently thought…
The Church of England and Education for Surrey Girls, 1870 – 1914.
Catherine Freeman is a part time doctoral student at the University of Greenwich. She is looking at education and employment for girls in Surrey between 1870 and 1914 and the relationships with ideas of respectable femininity across classes. This piece focusses on some of her research into an industrial school for girls, the archives for…
Magdalene Establishments in nineteenth-century Edinburgh
When I mention Magdalene Asylums as my research topic I usually encounter two reactions. It is either a blank expression followed up by the question ‘What are they?’; or a comment on the Irish Magdalene Laundries…
British Sunday Schools in the era of the First World War, 1900 – 1939
– Caitriona McCartney My thesis intends to address importance of British Sunday schools and assess their effectiveness in the era of the First World War. In doing so my research will demonstrate the significance of religious belief and practice in Britain during the early twentieth century. It is difficult in a more secular twenty-first century…
Remembering Martin Bucer
Stephen Tong is an Australian in his third year of PhD research at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, which is partly funded by the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust. He is investigating evangelical ecclesiology during the Edwardian Reformation with a particular focus on developments in liturgy. At the 2016 EHS summer conference (for which he was awarded a…
The Queen Caroline Affair and the Politicisation of the Church of England
Nicholas Dixon is an AHRC-funded second-year PhD student at Pembroke College, Cambridge. His doctoral research concerns the political and social influence of the Church of England during the early nineteenth century, with a particular focus on the Anglican clergy’s involvement in parliamentary politics, elementary education and tract distribution. He has also investigated various aspects of the Church’s relationship with the British monarchy and, at this year’s EHS summer conference (for which he was awarded a bursary), presented a paper on Queen Adelaide’s role in promoting Anglicanism in Malta. This post, which describes the implications of the ‘Queen Caroline Affair’ for the Church, draws together two important themes of his enquiries: the religious dimension of monarchy and clerical political activity.
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