About
William Gibson is Professor of Ecclesiastical History and Director of the Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History, Oxford Brookes University, UK.
He is a co-editor of the Wesley and Methodist Studies; the Journal of Religious History, Literature and Culture. He is a member of the editorial board of History and Religion of Oxford University Press’s ‘Oxford Research Directions’; Transactions of the Burgon Society and he is the reviews editor of Archives, the journal of the British Records Association.
Gibson is a specialist in the religious and social history of England in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He has published widely on the fortunes of the Church of England between the Glorious Revolution and the first Reform Act, renewing the Ecclesiastical History tradition.
Publications
Books:
- The Oxford Handbook to the British Sermon, 1689-1901, Oxford University Press, 2012, with K. A. Francis (paperback edn 2014).
- Britain 1660-1851: The Making of the Nation, Constable Robinson, 2011.
- James II and the Trial of the Seven Bishops, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
- Religious Identities in Britain, 1660-1832, edited with Robert Ingram, Ashgate, 2005.
- The Enlightenment Prelate: Benjamin Hoadly 1676-1761, James Clarke & Co, Cambridge, 2004.
- The Church of England 1688-1832: Unity and Accord, Routledge, 2001.
Articles:
- Mr Wesley’s Business: Debt, Dissenters and Distress, 1705, in «Historical Research», 83, 222, November 2010.
- Electoral religion in the reign of Charles II and the limits of the confessional state? in «The Historical Journal», vol. 51, No. 1, 2008.
- Dissenters, Anglicans and the Glorious Revolution: The Collection of Cases, in «The Seventeenth Century», 2007.
- William Talbot and Church Parties 1688-1730, in «The Journal of Ecclesiastical History», January, 2007.
- The Tory Governments and Church Patronage 1812-1830, in «The Journal of Ecclesiastical History», Vol 41, No 2, 1990.
- An Eighteenth Century Paradox: The Career of the Decypherer-Bishop Edward Willes, in «The British Journal for Eighteenth Century Studies», Vol 12, Part 1, 1989.
- A Whig Principal of Jesus, in «Oxoniensia», Vol 52, 1987.
- Patterns of Nepotism and Kinship in the Eighteenth Century Church, in «The Journal of Religious History», Vol 14, No 4, 1987.
