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Dr Michael Ledger-Lomas

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Dr Michael Ledger-Lomas

College Lecturer and Director of Studies

Reviews Editor, Historical Journal

Peterhouse,
Cambridge
CB2 1RD

Reviews Editor
The Historical Journal,
Faculty of History,
West Road, Cambridge CB3 9E
hjeditll@hermes.cam.ac.uk

Office Phone: 01223 33 82 56
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Subject groups/Research projects

Modern British History:

Departments and Institutes

Peterhouse:

Research Supervision

I am interested in supervising research on the history of religion and on relations between Britain and Europe in the nineteenth century

Teaching

  • Historical Tripos Part I papers 5 and 10
  • Historical Tripos Part II, Section B: 'The British and the Middle East, c.1830-1865'; Section D: '"Total War" and European Societies, 1792-1815'
  • ‘The Whig Interpretation of History,’ HAP lecture
  • 'God and the British, 1700-1914' eight lecture series with Dr Gareth Atkins

Other Professional Activities

Director, The Bible and Antiquity in Nineteenth-Century Culture Project (CRASSH/Faculty of Classics)

Key Publications

  • 'Religion', in Cambridge History of the Book in Britain: 1914 to the present (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming)
  • 'Introduction' and 'Conder and Son', in The Bible and Dissent in Britain, c.1650-1950, ed. Ledger-Lomas and Scott Mandelbrote (Oxford, forthcoming)
  • 'Introduction' and 'Ephesus,' in Cities of God: Archaeology and the Bible in Nineteenth-century Britain, ed. David Gange and Ledger-Lomas (Cambridge, forthcoming)
  • 'Theology', in Simon Eliot, ed., The History of Oxford University Press (Oxford, forthcoming)
  • ‘Biblical Studies: The Nineteenth Century,’ and ‘The Intellectual World of the Academies after the French Revolution,’ in A History of the Dissenting Academies in Britain, ed. Isabel Rivers, Richard Whatmore, David Wykes (Cambridge: forthcoming)
  • 'Caroline and Paul: Biblical commentaries as evidence of reading in Victorian Britain,' in The History of Reading, II: Evidence from the British Isles, c.1750-1950, ed. Katie Halsey and W.R. Owens (Palgrave, 2011)
  • and Chris Clark, ‘The Protestant International,’ in Religious Internationals in the Modern Age, ed. Abigail Green and Vincent Viaene (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)
  • ‘The Empire of the Air and the Rule of Thumb,’ in Industrieentwicklung: Ein deutsch-britischer Dialog - The Promotion of Industry: An Anglo-German Dialogue, ed. Karina Urbach und Andreas Fahrmeir (2009)
  • ‘The Great Consummation: Christ and Epic in Later Victorian Britain,’ Journal of Victorian Culture (September 2009)
  • ‘First-Century Fiction in the Late Nineteenth Century,’ Nineteenth-Century Contexts (2009)
  • 'Unitarians and the dilemma of liberal Protestantism in Victorian Britain: the Free Christian Union (1867-70),'Historical Research (2010)
  • 'Shipwrecked: James Smith and the defence of biblical narrative in Victorian Britain', Angermion: Jahrbuch für deutsch-britische kulturbeziehungen (September, 2008)
  • ‘Lyra Germanica: German Sacred Music in Mid-Nineteenth Century England,’ Bulletin of the German Historical Institute (November, 2007)
  • ‘“Glimpses of the Great Conflict”: English Congregationalists and the European Crisis of Faith, c.1845-1875,’Journal of British Studies (October, 2007)
  • ‘French Novels in Mid-Victorian England,’ in Rosalind Crone, David Gange and Katy Jones, eds, New Perspectives in British Cultural History (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007)
  • ‘Mass markets: Religion,’ in David McKitterick, ed., Cambridge History of the Book in Britain: 1830-1914(Cambridge University Press, 2008)
  • ‘The Character of Pitt the Younger and Party Politics 1830-60,’ Historical Journal, 47.3 (September 2004)