Professor William Gibson

Emeritus Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Oxford Brookes University, formerly visiting fellow Yale University.

Research Interests: 

Historian of religion in England 1660-1900. I am currently working on a study of Oxford during the Revolution of 1688-9.

External Engagement:

Chair of the Oxfordshire Record Society, https://oxrecsoc.org/ 

Editorships: 

Editor of the Journal of Religious History, Literature and Culture. Series editor of the Routledge Methodist Studies monographs.

Publications:

Recent books include: James II and Wales (University Press, 2024); Anglican Episcopate 1689-1800 (University of Wales, 2023); Samuel Wesley and the Crisis of Tory Piety 1685-1720 (Oxford University Press, 2021) Sex and the Church in the Long Eighteenth Century, (IB Tauris, 2017).