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Research Staff
- Dr Beverly Adams
- Dr Stephen Ball
- Dr Andrew Barclay
- Dr Linda Clark
- Dr Ben Coates
- Dr Robin Eagles
- Dr Stephen Farrell
- Dr David Fisher
- Dr David Grummitt
- Dr Stuart Handley
- Mr Simon Healy
- Dr Paul Hunneyball
- Dr Hannes Kleineke
- Dr Vivienne Larminie
- Dr Patrick Little
- Dr Charles Littleton
- Dr Henry Miller
- Dr Charles Moreton
- Dr James Owen
- Dr Ruth Paley
- Dr Simon Payling
- Dr Kathryn Rix
- Dr Stephen Roberts
- Dr Philip Salmon
- Dr David Scott
- Dr Rosemary Sgroi
- Dr Andrew Thrush
History of Parliament Staff
Dr Beverly Adams
Senior Research Fellow, Lords 1660-1832
Research
My work at the History of Parliament currently focuses on the bishops who sat in the House of Lords from 1660-1715. These include a range of prominent churchmen and political activists. I am also working on the rights of bishops to vote in the Lords’ trials of capital cases, and on the role of the episcopate in Wales.
My research interests include the history of Quakers in England during the 17th and 18th centuries and the religious history of Hertford during the same period. I am working on a book on the Quaker Sarah Stout entitled The Body in the Water. Religious Conflict in Hertford 1660-1702.
Publications
‘The experience of defeat revisited: suffering, identity and the politics of obedience among Hertford Quakers, 1655-1665’, in C. Durston and J. Maltby (eds), Religion in Revolutionary England (MUP forthcoming).
‘The “Durty Spirit” at Hertford: a falling out of Friends’, in Journal of Ecclesiastical History (October 2001)
Lifestyle and Culture in Hertford: wills and inventories for the parishes of All Saints and Saint Andrew 1660-1725 (Hertford 1997)
‘Kleio and the Estate Economy’, in M. Woollard and P. Denley (eds), The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: Studies in Kleio (St. Katharinen, 1996)
Book Reviews in Journal of Ecclesiastical History, (July 2001 and October 2002) and ‘Commons Sense’ Article in History Today on Bishop William Gulston (July 2004)