Courses & Learning
Academic Staff
Maureen Bell, BA, MA, PGCE, MLS, PhD
Publications include:
‘The English Provincial Trade 1700-1850’ (with John Hinks) in A History of the Book in Britain vol. V , ed. M. Suarez and M. Turner, CUP (2009), pp. 335-352. ISBN: 978-0-521-81017-3
A Catalogue of the Library of Titus Wheatcroft of Ashover, (ed.) (Derbyshire Record Society, 2008) ISBN: 978-0-946324-30-9
'Booksellers without an author, 1627-1685' in Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture, ed. Gary Taylor, Oxford University Press (2007), pp.260-85. ISBN: 978-0-19-818570-3
A Chronology and Calendar of Documents relating to the London Book Trade 1641-1700, by D.F.McKenzie and M. Bell. 3 vols. (OUP, 2005). ISBN: 0-19-818410-7 (vol.I); 0-19-818176-0 (vol. II); 0-19-928558-6 (vol. III). Pages: 643 (vol. 1); 458 (vol. II); 468 (vol. III).
‘The Book Trade in English Provincial Towns, 1700-1849: an evaluation of evidence from the British Book Trade Index’ (with John Hinks) in Publishing History 57, 2005, pp. 53-112. ISSN: 0309-2445
Research Interests: Early printed books; Women as producers of text; The uses of print by seventeenth-century radicals and religious groups; The development of the provincial book trade in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; Provincial readers’ access to books.
‘Ben’, Pink Dandelion, BA, PhD
Publications include:
A Sociological Analysis of the Theology of Quakers: the silent revolution. Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 1996 (Studies in Religion and Society No. 34)
with Margery Post Abbott, Mary Ellen Chijioke, and John Oliver (eds), The Historical Dictionary of Quakerism. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2003
with Douglas Gwyn, Rachel Muers, Brian Phillips, and Richard Sturm, Towards Tragedy/Reclaiming Hope. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004
The Creation of Quaker Theory: insider perspectives (ed.). Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004
The Liturgies of Quakerism. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005
Introduction to Quakerism. Cambridge: CUP, 2007
With Jackie Leach Scully, eds, Good and Evil: Quaker perspectives, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007.
The Quakers: a very short introduction. Oxford: OUP, 2008.
Research Interests: Present-day Quakerism; Sociology of religion.
Betty Hagglund, BA, MA, PhD
Publications include:
‘Celia Fiennes’ and ‘Kate Marsden’ in The Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia. London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2003: 434-435 & 772-773
‘Jane Elizabeth Moore’, ‘Sarah Murray’ and ‘Cassandra Willoughby’ in New Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: OUP, 2004.
“Not absolutely a native nor entirely a stranger”: the journeys of Anne Grant’ in Tim Youngs and Glenn Hooper (eds), Perspectives on Travel Writing. London: Ashgate, 2004: 41-54
‘Interrupted Travelling: the captivity diaries of Mary and Martha Russell’ in Emin Ozcan (ed.), Sinirlar ve Geçitler. Ankara: University of Ankara, 2004: 111-11'
‘Travel Writing as Domestic Ritual’, Mind and Human Interaction (University of Virginia), vol. 14, no. 1 (2005): 64-70
Research Interests: Travel writing; Origins of early Quakerism; Quaker texts; women’s writing.
Pam Lunn, BA, PGCE, MA
Publications include:
‘You Have Lost Your Opportunity: British Quakers and the militant phase of the women’s suffrage campaign: 1906-1914.’ Quaker Studies 2 (1997): 30-56
‘Anatomy and Theology of Marriage: is gay marriage an oxymoron?’ Theology and Sexuality 7 (1997):10-26
‘Integrating Gender, Faith and Learning: women’s mid-life passage in the experience of some Quaker and Roman Catholic adult students.’ Quaker Studies 4 (1999): 142-156
‘Narratives of a Gendered Self: class, interiority and women’s educational desires’ in Pauline Anderson and Jenny Williams (eds), Identity and Difference in Higher Education: outsiders within. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001: 107-120
‘The Age of Learning and Skills: postmodernism, vocationalism and the disappearance of Rita’ in Diana Leonard (ed.), The Politics of Gender and Education Conference Proceedings 2001. London: Centre for Research and Education on Gender, Institute of Education, University of London, 2002: 90-95.
Research Interests: Self-narratives of mature women students; Issues in narration of religious belief and identity (including spiritual auto/biography); Methodological issues in life-narrative research; Nineteenth century Quaker women social reformers; Life of Priscilla Bright McLaren (1815-1906).
Hugh McLeod, BA, PhD
Publications include:
The Religious Crisis of the 1960s. OUP, 2007.
Editor of The Cambridge History of Christianity, volume 9: World Christianities c.1914-c.2000. CUP, 2006.
'God and the Gallows: Christianity and Capital Punishment in the 19th and 20th Centuries,’ in Kate Cooper and Jeremy Gregory (eds), Retribution, Repentance and Reconciliation. Boydell & Brewer, 2004.
"Thews and Sinews”: Nonconformists and Sport in Victorian and Edwardian England,’ in David Bebbington and Tim Larsen (eds), Christianity and Cultural Aspirations. Sheffield: Academic Press, 2003.
‘The Church of England and Homosexual Law Reform,’ in Melanie Barber and Stephen Taylor (eds), From the Reformation to the Permissive Society. Boydell & Brewer, 2010.
Research interests: Religion and sport in modern Britain; Comparison between the religious trajectories of the United States and of western Europe, with special reference to the periods c.1890-1914 and c.1960-80.
Rosemary Moore, MA, DipTheol, CertEd., BD, PhD
Publications include:
The Light in Their Consciences: Early Quakers in Britain 1646-1666. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000.
The History of the Life of Thomas Ellwood, Written by Himself, (editing and introducing). Walnut Creek: Altamira, in association with the International Sacred Literature Trust, 2004.
(With R. Melvin Keiser) Knowing the Mystery of Life Within: Selected Writings of Isaac Penington in their Historical and Theological Context. London: Quaker Books, 2005.
Co-operating editor, Protestant Nonconformist Texts Volume 1, R. Tudur Jones, ed. Aldershot; Ashcroft 2007.
Research interests: Seventeenth Century Quaker History.
Edwina Newman, BA, PhD
Publications include:
‘The Anti Corn Law League and the Wiltshire Labourer: aspects of the development of nineteenth century protest’ in Land, Labour and Agriculture 1700-1920, ed. by B.Holderness and M.Turner (London: Hambledon Press, 1991)
With A. Randall, ‘Protest, Proletarians and Paternalists. Social conflict in rural Wiltshire 1830-1850’, Rural History, 6 (1995)
‘John Brewin’s Tracts: the written word, Evangelicalism and the Quaker way in nineteenth century England’, Quaker Studies, 9/2 (March 2005)
Research Interests: Quakers’ relationship with books and reading; understanding eighteenth and nineteenth century English Quakers in their historical context; the representation of Quakers in the Old Bailey Proceedings; English rural society in the nineteenth century.
In addition to specific research interests, staff are able to supervise research across the varied areas of Quaker Studies, as well as topics in Literary Studies, History, Women’s Studies, and the Sociology of Religion.
The CPQS Advisory Panel currently consists of, alphabetically:
Richard Allen, Department of History, University of Sunderland
Peter Collins, Department of Anthropology, University of Durham
Elaine Hobby, Department of English and Drama, University of Loughborough
Roger Homan, School of Education, University of Brighton
Hugh McLeod, Department of History, University of Birmingham
Michael Mullett, Department of History, Lancaster University
Rachel Muers, Department of Theology, University of Exeter
Janet Scott, Homerton College, Cambridge University
Angus Winchester, Department of History, Lancaster University
To find out more, please contact Ben Pink Dandelion, Programmes Leader, CPQS, at Woodbrooke.
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