Jeremy Gregory, D.Phil., Senior Lecturer in the History of Modern Christianity, University of Manchester.
His research and publications have contributed to the debates concerning the role of the Church of England in particular, and religion in general, in English social, cultural, political and intellectual history from the mid seventeenth to the mid nineteenth centuries. His monograph, Restoration, Reformation and Reform 1660-1828: Archbishops of Canterbury and their diocese (2000), is an original and wide-ranging revisionist assessment of the Church in this period. His current research is moving in two (inter-related) directions. First, he is undertaking a major new research project on the role of the Church of England in North America (New England) from the late seventeenth to the late eighteenth centuries. His second current research strand is to investigate the connections between Wesley and his circle and the Church of England as part of his interest in the relationship between conformism and dissent. The rich holdings of the John Rylands Library (particularly the papers relating to the Wesleys, John Fletcher and Mary Bosanquet) shed important light on this theme.
