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Dr Joel Halcomb

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Dr Joel Halcomb

Research associate

Faculty of History
University of Cambridge
West Road
Cambridge
CB3 9EF
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Biography:

Joel completed a BS double major in mathematics and history at Oklahoma State University. He came to Cambridge as a Gates Scholar, where he took an MPhil in Early Modern History and then a PhD on the congregational movement in Britain and Ireland, 1640-1660. He has worked as assistant editor on The minutes and papers of the Westminster assembly, 1643-1653. From 2010-2011 he taught sub-honours and honours courses at the University of St Andrews. He has now returned to Cambridge as a research associate on a forthcoming edition of The writings and speeches of Oliver Cromwell.

Keywords

  • Early Modern History

Key Publications

  • The minutes and papers of the Westminster assembly, 1643-1653 (5 vols, Oxford University Press, 2012)
  • 'Reforming the Reformation or Puritan Revolution?', The Historical Journal, vol. 52, no. 4 (2009)
  • 'The association movement: Irenic church government and the reconstruction orthodoxy, discipline, and authority in the wake of the "puritan revolution"' in Elliot Vernon and Hunter Powell (eds), The keys of the kingdom of heaven: Church polity in the English speaking world, c.1636-1689 (forthcoming, 2014)