Events

The Centre for Anglican History and Theology maintains an active schedule of events centring on the study of the worldwide Anglican communion.

Bringing together experts and researchers from across disciplines, our events explore key and challenging questions in Anglican studies using a variety of methodological approaches.

Forthcoming lectures and conferences

14 March 2024 at 5pm. Professor Peter Marshall FBA (Warwick). ‘Ecclesiastical History from the Edge: The Church in Early Modern Orkney’. Centre for Anglican History and Theology Ecclesiastical History Lecture (Mabb Lovell Lecture Theatre (Room OS0.19), Canterbury Christchurch University)

18 May 2024, The Church and Social Justice, at a time of Economic Crisis and Environmental Catastrophe (day conference at Cathedral Lodge, Canterbury Cathedral)

Led by Professor David Ormrod

Conference Programme

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Spring 2023

Professor William Pettigrew (Lancaster), How to interpret Anglican Investment in the Transatlantic Trade in Enslaved People

Autumn 2022

Dr Eloise Davies (Oxford), William Bedell and the Making of a Missionary Church in England, 1603–1642

Professor Stephen Taylor (Durham), Monarchy and Religion in Britain: Historical Reflections prompted by the New Reign

Professor Alexandra Walsham FBA (Cambridge) The Church in the House: Ecclesiastical History, Social History, and England’s Long Reformation

Summer 2022

Professor Benjamin King, The Oxford Movement versus the Abolitionist Movement: John Henry Newman and Henry Edward Manning on Slavery

Spring 2022

Inaugural Annual Lecture in Ecclesiastical History, Dr Andrew Foster, In Praise of Ecclesiastical History

Autumn 2021

Dr Haig Smith, Evangelism and Commerce in the 17th Century

Inaugural Annual Lecture for the Centre for Anglican History and Theology, Professor Diarmaid MacCullough FBA, Right in front of our eyes: the English reformation viewed afresh