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Publications

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A full list of publications may be found here.

BOOKS

Reformation Without End: Religion, Politics and the Past in Post-Revolutionary England (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018).

Religion, Reform and Modernity in the Eighteenth Century: Thomas Secker and the Church of England (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2017). 

EDITED BOOKS

Capitalism: Histories, eds. Robert G. Ingram and James M. Vaughn (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, forthcoming 2025).

People Power: Popular Sovereignty from Machiavelli to Modernity, eds. Robert G. Ingram and Christopher Barker (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022).

Freedom of Speech, 1500-1850, eds. Robert G. Ingram, Jason Peacey and Alex W. Barber (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020).

God in the Enlightenment, eds. William J. Bulman and Robert G. Ingram (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016).

Between Sovereignty and Anarchy: The Politics of Violence in the American Revolutionary Era, eds. Patrick Griffin, Robert G. Ingram, Peter Onuf and Brian Schoen (Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press 2015). 

Religious Identities in Britain, 1660–1832, eds. William Gibson and Robert G. Ingram (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005).

ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTERS

‘Capitalism: Histories and Institutions’, in Capitalism:Histories, eds. Robert G. Ingram and James M. Vaughn (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, forthcoming 2025).

‘Sin, Salvation and Spirits in Eighteenth-Century England’, History of European Ideas (forthcoming, 2024).

‘“Such mischievous consequences to the Peace and Order of the Church”: Christ, Publics and Politics in Hanoverian England', in Radical Ideas and the Crisis of Christianity in England, 1640–1750, eds. Katherine East and Alex W. Barber (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2024), pp. 218–237.

‘“The real question of freedom”: The State, the Church and the Individual, c. 1860–c. 1920’ (with Adeline Fitzwater), Journal of Religious History, Literature and Culture 9:1 (June 2023), pp. 69–96.

‘Priestcraft, Enthusiasm, Bishops and Eighteenth-Century Intellectual Life’, in The Anglican Episcopate, 1689–1800, eds. William Gibson and Nigel Aston (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2023), 203–239.

‘People Power’ (with Christopher Barker), in People Power: Popular Sovereignty from Machiavelli to Modernity, eds. Robert G. Ingram and Christopher Barker (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022), pp. 1–29.

‘Sovereignty, God and the Historians’, in People Power: Popular Sovereignty from Machiavelli to Modernity, pp. 227–253.

‘“My Kingdom is not of this World”: J.N. Figgis and the Politics of England’s Religious Past’, in Churches in a Pluralist World: The Thought and Legacy of John Neville Figgis, CR, ed. Paul Avis (Leiden: Brill, 2022), pp. 93–119.

‘The Reformation in the Age of Jefferson', in Ireland and America: Empire, Revolution and Sovereignty, eds. Frank Cogliano and Patrick Griffin (Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2021), pp. 178–197.

‘“State Whiggs, but such Bigotted Church Toryes”: The Irish Toleration Act of 1719 and the Politics of Religion’, Parliamentary History 41 (June 2021), pp. 343–361.

‘Freedom of Speech in England and the Anglophone World, 1500–1850’ (with Jason Peacey and Alex W. Barber), in Freedom of Speech, 1500–1850, eds. Robert G. Ingram, Jason Peacey and Alex W. Barber (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020), pp. 1–27.

‘“The Warr…against Blasphemors and Infidels”: Prosecuting Heresy in Enlightenment England’ (with Alex W. Barber), in Freedom of Speech, 1500–1850, pp. 151–170.

'The Church of England, 1714–1783', in Establishment and Empire: The Development of Anglicanism, 1662–1829, ed. Jeremy Gregory (Oxford Handbook of Anglicanism, volume 2) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), pp. 49–67.

'Religion, Enlightenment an the Paradox of Innovation, c. 1650–1750' (with William J. Bulman), in Religion and Innovation: Antagonists or Partners?, ed. Donald Yerxa (London: Bloomsbury, 2016), pp. 100–112. 

'Conyers Middleton's Cicero: Enlightenment, Scholarship and Polemic', in Brill's Companion to the Reception of Cicero, ed. William H.F. Altman (Leiden: Brill, 2015), pp. 95–123.

'Representing and Misrepresenting the History of Puritanism in Eighteenth-Century England', in The Church on its Past (Studies in Church History, 49), eds. Peter Clarke and Charlotte Methuen (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2013), pp. 202–215. 

‘“From barbarism to civility, from darkness to light”: Preaching Empire as Sacred History’, in The Oxford Handbook of the British Sermon, 1689–1901, eds. Keith Francis and William Gibson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 481–496

‘Betraying the Word’, Fides et Historia 44:2 (Summer/Fall 2012), pp. 101–110.

‘“Popish Cut-Throats against us”: Papists, Protestants and the Problem of Allegiance in Eighteenth- Century Ireland’, in From the Reformation to the Permissive Society. A Miscellany in Celebration of the 400th Anniversary of Lambeth Palace Library [The Church of England Record Society], ed. Stephen Taylor (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2010), pp. 151–209. 

‘Nature, History and the Search for Order: The Boyle Lectures, 1730–1785’, in God’s Bounty? The Churches and the Natural World (Studies in Church History, 46), eds. Tony Claydon and Peter Clarke (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2010), pp. 276–292. 

‘“The weight of historical evidence”: Conyers Middleton and the Eighteenth-Century Miracles Debate’, in Religion, Politics and Dissent, 1660–1832, eds. William Gibson and Robert Cornwall (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2010), pp. 85–109. 

‘“The clergy who affect to call themselves orthodox”: Thomas Secker and the Defence of Anglican Orthodoxy, 1758–68’, Discipline and Diversity (Studies in Church History, 43), eds. Kate Cooper and Jeremy Gregory (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2007), pp. 342–353. 

‘Sykes’s Shadow: Thoughts on the Recent Historiography of the Church of England’, CROMOHS (2007). 

“The trembling Earth is God’s Herald”: earthquakes, religion, and public life in Britain during the 1750s’, in The Lisbon earthquake of 1755: Representations and reactions (SVEC 2005:02), eds. Theodore E.D. Braun and John B. Radner (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 2005), pp. 97–115. 

‘William Warburton, Divine Action, and Enlightened Christianity’, in Religious Identities in Britain, 1660–1832, pp. 97–117. 

‘Introduction’ (with William Gibson) in Religious Identities in Britain, 1660–1832, pp. 1–7. 

‘Archbishop Thomas Secker, Anglican identity, and relations with foreign Protestants in the mid- eighteenth century’, in From Strangers to Citizens: Immigrant Communities in Britain, Ireland and Colonial America, 1550–1750, eds. Randolph Vigne and Charles Middleton (Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2001), pp. 527–538.