Bernard Capp is emeritus professor at the University of Warwick and a Fellow of the British Academy. He has published extensively on the British Civil Wars and interregnum and on many aspects of seventeenth-century history. His most recent books are England’s Culture Wars: Puritan Reformation and its Enemies in the Interregnum, 1649–1660 (Oxford, 2012) and The Ties that Bind: Siblings, Family and Society in Early Modern England (Oxford, 2018).
Alex Craven is an associate fellow of the Institute of Historical Research and currently employed by the Victoria County History of Gloucestershire, having previously worked for VCH Wiltshire. His PhD thesis, ‘Coercion and compromise: Lancashire provincial politics and the creation of the English Republic, 1648–53’ (University of Manchester, 2005), looked at the relationship between central and local government during the 1640s and 1650s. He has published four articles drawing upon his research into the politics and society of the 1650s, two of which dealt with the reform of the Church.
Trixie Gadd completed her PhD at the Centre for English Local History, University of Leicester in October 2019, with a thesis entitled ‘“Tis my lot by faith to be sustained”: clerical prosperity in seventeenth-century Dorset’. She is an honorary visiting fellow at Leicester, contributing to the AHRC-funded project ‘Conflict, welfare and memory during and after the English Civil Wars, 1642–1710’ led by Professor Andrew Hopper.
Andrew Foster is an honorary research fellow at the University of Kent, and a visiting researcher with ‘Lincoln Unlocked’ at Lincoln College, Oxford. Andrew has written chiefly about the early modern Church of England, its bishops and clergy, its cathedrals, parishes and churchwardens. He is currently working on a history of the dioceses of England and Wales between 1540 and 1700, and an edition of the papers of Archbishop Richard Neile for the Church of England Record Society.
Maureen Harris was awarded a PhD in 2015 by the University of Leicester for a thesis on conflict between clergy and laity in Warwickshire, 1660–1720. She contributed to the ‘Battle-scarred’ exhibition at Newark National Civil War Centre and is leading a National Lottery Heritage Fund volunteer project to explore the human cost of the English Civil Wars through the transcription of all the Warwickshire ‘Loss Accounts’ of 1646/7, to be published by the Dugdale Society.
Alfred Johnson gained his PhD from the University of Sydney in 2018 with a thesis entitled ‘Civility and Godly society: Scotland 1550–1672’.
Rosalind Johnson is a visiting research fellow at the University of Winchester, where she was awarded her PhD in 2013 for her thesis on Protestant dissenters in Hampshire from 1640 to 1740. She has taught at the universities of Winchester and Chichester, and is currently a researcher with the Wiltshire Victoria County History project.
Fiona McCall is an early modern historian, specializing in seventeenth-century religious and social history. She is a senior lecturer in history at the University of Portsmouth, a departmental lecturer in local and social history for the University of Oxford Department of Continuing Education and a fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford. Her first book was Baal’s Priests: the Loyalist Clergy and the English Revolution (2013). She has since published several articles and chapters and is currently writing her second book, Unruly People: Ungodly Religion in the English Parish, 1645–1660 for Routledge.
Sarah Ward Clavier is a senior lecturer in early modern history at the University of the West of England. She has a DPhil from the University of Oxford and has published on diverse subjects including seventeenth-century Anglicanism, royalist ballads, Welsh royalism, and seventeenth-century autobiographical and biographical writing. Her monograph Royalism, Religion and Revolution: North-East Wales, 1640–1715 is forthcoming with Boydell & Brewer.
Rebecca Warren is an honorary research fellow at the University of Kent, specializing in the religious history of the British Civil Wars and the Protectorate of Oliver Cromwell. She is currently writing a monograph on ‘The Interregnum Church in England, c.1649–1662’. She is an historical consultant to the Cromwell Museum in Huntingdon and has taught a range of early modern undergraduate and adult education courses at the University of Kent.
Helen M. Whittle is a freelance historical researcher and editor of West Sussex History, the journal of the West Sussex Archives Society. In 2019 she published The Clergy of Sussex c.1635–c.1665, based on her PhD research, and is currently working on a volume of abstracts of clergy wills of the period for Sussex Record Society.