John H. Y. Briggs, M.A., F.R.Hist.Soc., Senior Research Fellow in Church History and Director of the Centre for Baptist History and Heritage at Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford.
John Briggs is Senior Research Fellow in Church History and is also the Director of the Centre for Baptist History and Heritage. He is also Research Professor in Baptist History at International Baptist Theological Seminary. John is a past chairman of the Baptist World Alliance's Baptist History and Heritage Commission (1990-95). He was editor of The Baptist Quarterly between 1985-2008.
His major publications include:
Victorian Nonconformity (1973) with Ian Sellers; Freedom: A Baptist View (1978); The English Baptists of the Nineteenth Century (1994); 'British Baptists and the beginnings of the Baptist World Alliance', Baptist Quarterly 41.1, Jan. 2005; 'Baptists and the Campaign to Abolish the Slave Trade', Baptist Quarterly 42.4 (October 2007); (ed.) with Stephen Orchard, The Sunday School Movement: Studies in the Growth and Decline of Sunday Schools (2007); (ed.) Pulpit and People: Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Baptist Life and Thought (2009); (ed.), Dictionary of European Baptist Life and Thought (Paternoster, forthcoming); see also Ecumenism and History: Studies in Honour of John H.Y. Briggs (ed.) Anthony Cross (2002).
