

I am on the Council of the Catholic Record Society (CRS) and was CRS Conference Director, 1996-2007.


I have been an Honorary Research Fellow (HRF) in the Department, then Division of Religions & Theology, University of Manchester, since 1999 (confirmed 2007), and an Honorary Research Felow in the School of Arts Languages & Cultures, since February 2014. I was a Visiting Fellow at Oriel College, Oxford, 2006-11. I was an Assistant Librarian and Librarian at the John Rylands Library, University of Manchester from December 1979 until 30 September 2016, from 1990 being a curator in Special Collections at the John Rylands Library, Deansgate, with responsibility for the Methodist collections for many years and Librarian in Rare Books & Maps, Special Collections, with responsibility for all theological book collections, 2010-16. Pereiro of the Oxford Handbook of the Oxford Movement, published by Oxford University Press in June 2017. I was also a contributor to the Oxford Handbook of John Henry Newman published by OUP in October 2018. I was a contributor to and editor with Professor Stewart J. I was co-editor of a themed issue of the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library (volume 90:1) published in 2014 under the title Reinventing the Reformation. Brown of The Oxford Movement: Europe and the Wider World 1830-1930 (Cambridge University Press 2012). My many other publications include a contribution to a History of Canterbury Cathedral (Oxford University Press 1995), to volume 6 of the History of the University of Oxford (Oxford University Press 1997), two major chapters in Oriel College: A History (Oxford University Press 2013), and I was a contributor and the co-editor with Stewart J. A heavily revised and expanded version of this was published by Cambridge University Press in 1994 (paperback 1997) under the itle: The Oxford Movement in Context: Anglican High Churchmanship in Britain, 1760-1857. My Oxford D.Phil thesis was entitled 'Continuity & Change in Anglican High-Churchmanship in Britain, 1792-1850'. from the University of Oxford, in 19 respectively, studying at Worcester College and St Cross College.
