The Ecclesiastical History Society (EHS) was founded in 1961 and aims to foster interest in, and to advance the study of, all areas of the history of the Christian Churches.

Membership

We welcome applications for membership from:

  • individuals furthering the study of the history of the Christian churches;
  • students working in relevant fields;
  • scholars engaged in the study and/or teaching of ecclesiastical history at institutions of higher education in the UK and abroad;
  • and institutions and other bodies interested in furthering the study of ecclesiastical history.

Two Fully-funded PhD Studentships for work on Richard Baxter, Edmund Calamy and English Dissent

An AHRC-funded project to prepare for Oxford University Press the first scholarly edition of Richard Baxter’s Reliquiae Baxterianae (1696) is
advertising two associated PhD studentships which represent rare opportunities for fully-funded doctoral study for students with interests in late seventeenth or early eighteenth-century religious, literary, political and/or book history.
The first is an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award to Dr Williams's Library, London, and the University of Leicester.

Just published - the history of the EHS

Launched at the Summer Meeting of the EHS in Oxford, 'A Very Agreeable Society': The Ecclesiastical History Society, 1961-2011 has been written by its secretary, Dr Stella Fletcher. It chronicles the development of the society and the people involved against a background of significant changes in the discipline. For more detail and an order form, click here.

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