William Gibson (historian)

William Thomas Gibson (born 1959) is an English historian and professor who specialises in the

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Education

He received BA(Hons) MA (Wales), PGCE (Oxon), PhD (Middlesex), DLitt (Wales), FRHistS, FRSA, FBS. He was educated at Huish’s Grammar School, Taunton, Somerset; St David’s University College, Lampeter (now the Lampeter campus of the University of Wales Trinity Saint David), Lincoln College, Oxford, and Middlesex University.

Biography

He initially worked as a teacher in a

. In 2006 he was awarded the title Professor.

Gibson has been described as ‘one of that school of ecclesiastical historians… which in the late twentieth century has given fresh impetus and vitality to the revisionist view of the eighteenth-century Church...’ (John Guy in

Annual Bulletin of Historical Literature

, December 2006.)

In February 2008 he was appointed as Director of the

Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History

. In October 2009 he was visiting fellow at Baylor University, Texas. In April 2011 he was visiting fellow at Yale University. In 2019-2020, he was Visiting Professor at Clermont Auvergne University.

Writings

His books include, Church, State and Society, 1760-1850 (Macmillans, 1994)[2]; The Achievement of the Anglican Church, 1689-1800: The Confessional State in England in the Eighteenth Century, (Edwin Mellen Press, 1995)[3]; A Social History of the Domestic Chaplain, 1530-1840, (Leicester University Press/Cassell, 1996); Religion and Society in England and Wales, 1689-1800, (Leicester UP/Cassell, 1998); The Church of England 1688-1832: Unity and Accord, (Routledge, 2001); The Enlightenment Bishop: Benjamin Hoadly 1676-1761, (James Clarke & Co, 2004)[4]; Religion and the Enlightenment 1600-1800: Conflict and the Rise of Civic Humanism in Taunton, (Peter Lang, 2007)[5]. He is the author of numerous articles.

External links

• Oxford Brookes University: Prof. William Gibson