Project team

Professor Philip Williamson, Principal Investigator

University of Durham

Philip Williamson's recent work has been on the modern British monarchy and on national acts of public worship since the 1830s. He is also an expert on twentieth-century British politics, political culture and government. More information

Professor Stephen Taylor, Co-Investigator

University of Durham

Stephen Taylor specialises in the political and religious history of England in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and is currently working on a study of 'The Whigs and the Church 1714-60', and a biography of Caroline of Ansbach, the wife of George II.  He is founder and co-investigator of The Clergy of the Church of England Database, 1540-1835 and of the completed project, The Entring Book of Roger Morrice. More information

Dr Natalie Mears, Co-Investigator

University of Durham

Natalie Mears is a specialist in Elizabethan political culture, court politics, queenship and the public sphere.  Her current work focuses on occasional forms of prayer in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. More information

Dr Alasdair Raffe, Research Associate

University of Durham, now Lecturer at the University of Northumbria

Alasdair Raffe works on religious debate and polemic in late seventeenth and early eighteenth century Scotland. More information

Lucy Bates, Doctoral Student

University of Durham

Lucy Bates' thesis is on fasts and thanksgivings from c.1640 to c.1660. Her focus is on the ordering, disseminating and reception of 'national' days of prayer, fasting and thanksgiving during and after the Civil Wars when authority was contested and the structure of the Stuart church broke down. More information