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Jeremy Gregory

Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Social Sciences (interim) and Professor of the History of Christianity, Faculty of VC's Office

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Biography

Jeremy joined the University in September 2015. He has a BA in Modern History and a D.Phil from the University of Oxford and was appointed Lecturer in History at Newcastle Polytechnic (now Northumbria University) in 1985, becoming Head of History and Principal Lecturer in 1995. He moved to The University of Manchester in 2000, promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2001, and to Professor in 2010. At Manchester, he was the first Director of Undergraduate Education in the newly-formed School of Arts, Histories and Cultures from 2004 to 2007, becoming Head in 2011, and from 2012 he was the founding Head of the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, with over 6,000 students and c. 500 staff. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and has held visiting fellowships at Brown University, Magdalen College, Oxford, and The Boston Athenaeum.

In his role as Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Jeremy provides executive leadership to the and Faculty of Social Sciences (interim), to ensure strategic and operational outcomes are met. Jeremy is a member of the where he shares ownership of key decisions, jointly leading the development and implementation of the University Strategy.

Research Summary

Jeremy's research and publications have shaped and contributed to the debates concerning the role of the Church of England in particular, and religion in general, in English social, cultural,… read more

Recent Publications

  • HANNAH BARKER, CARYS BROWN, KATE GIBSON and JEREMY GREGORY, 2025. OUP.
  • GREGORY, J., ed., 2021. Manchester Cathedral. A History of the Collegiate Church and Cathedral, 1421 to the present Manchester University Press.
  • GREGORY, J., 2019. 鈥楾he Church and nonconformity in Later Stuart England: the wider world of Matthew Henry鈥�. In: COLLINS, M. and MIDDLETON, P., eds., Matthew Henry: The Bible, Prayer, and Piety Bloomsbury. 14-30
  • GREGORY, J., 2017. 'The Anglican Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts: Anniversary Sermons and Abstracts of Proceedings'. In: SCHUNKA, A. and FRIEDRICH, M., eds., Reporting Christian Missions: Communication, Culture of Knowledge and Regular Publication in a Cross-confessional Perspective Harrassowitz. 117-133

I have been fortunate to supervise a number of outstanding research students, many of whom have published the outcomes of their research.

These include:

  • Susan Rutherford, 'Reformation Principles: the Religious and Political Ideas of Benjamin Hoadly (1676-1761)'. (Ph.D thesis, University of Northumbria). Degree awarded 2000.
  • Timothy Walsh, '"To meet and satisfy a very hungry people": an exploration of the origins, emergence, and development of the Pentecostal Movement in Britain, 1907-1925'. (Ph.D thesis, University of Manchester). Degree awarded 2007. Published as 'To meet and satisfy a very hungry people'. The Origins and Fortunes of English Pentecostalism, 1907-1925 (Studies in Evangelical History and Thought, Paternoster Press, 2011)
  • Barbara Prosser, '"An arrow from a quiver". Written instruction for a reading people: John Wesley's Arminian Magazine, 1778-1791'. (Ph.D thesis, University of Manchester.) Degree awarded 2008.
  • Geordan Hammond, 'Restoring Primitive Christianity: John Wesley and Georgia, 1735-7'. (PhD thesis, University of Manchester). Degree awarded 2008. [Winner of the Wesleyan Theological Society Outstanding Dissertation Award, 2009] Published as John Wesley and America (OUP, 2014)
  • David Wilson, 'Church and Chapel: parish ministry and Methodism in Madeley, c. 1760-1785, with special reference to the ministry of John Fletcher'. (PhD thesis, University of Manchester). Degree awarded 2010.
  • David Hart, 'The emergence and development of Methodism in Norwich, 1754-1802.' (PhD thesis, University of Manchester). Degree awarded 2010.
  • Simon Mayers, 'English Catholic Attitudes towards Jews and Anglo-Jewish Attitudes towards Catholics at the end of the 19th Century and Beginning of the 20th Century'. (co-supervisor) (Ph.D thesis, University of Manchester). Degree awarded 2011.
  • Ruth Hadley, 'The Concept of 'Toleration' in Twentieth Century Thought, with special reference to the UNESCO '1995: Year of Toleration'. (second supervisor). (Ph.D thesis, University of Manchester). Degree awarded 2012.
  • Carl Kilcourse, 'Taiping Theology: Religious Identity in Global Perspective' (co- supervisor). (Ph.D thesis, University of Manchester). Ph.D Degree awarded 2013.
  • Meriel Boyd, 'In their own image? Church building in the deanery of Manchester, 1847 to 1903: relationships between donor, architect, and churchmanship'. (Ph.D thesis, University of Manchester, co-supervisor). Degree awarded 2015.
  • Anne-Louise Critchlow, 'William Kelly (1821-1906): Biblical Literalist, Conservative Intellectual, and Mystic'. (Ph.D thesis, University of Manchester). Degree awarded 2015. Published as Against the Trend. The Spirituality of William Kelly (1821-1906) (Wipf & Stock, 2016).
  • Naomi Billinglsey, 'William Blake's Visual Christologies' [AHRC funded]. (Ph.D thesis, University of Manchester). Degree awarded 2016.
  • Michael Smith, 'Piety and Devotion in the North-West of England' (Ph.D thesis, University of Manchester).To be submitted in 2016.
  • Jessica Patterson, 'The East India Company and perceptions of religions in India' [AHRC funded] (Ph.D thesis, University of Manchester).

I looks forward to supervising PhD students on any aspect of religious history in the long eighteenth century.

Current Research

Jeremy's research and publications have shaped and contributed to the debates concerning the role of the Church of England in particular, and religion in general, in English social, cultural, political and intellectual history from the mid seventeenth to the mid nineteenth centuries. He has also published on the relationship between religion and gender, religion and the wider artistic and literary culture, and on the relationship between conformity and dissent. His current research is on the Church of England in colonial British North America and he is also keen to explore the rich records of the Archdeaconry of Nottingham housed at the University's Manuscripts and Special Collections.

His recently edited book, Manchester Cathedral. A History of the Collegiate Church and Cathedral, 1421 to the present, was published by Manchester University Press in November 2021. His edited volume, The Oxford History of Anglicanism, Volume II Establishment and Empire, 1662-1829, was published by Oxford University Press in 2017 (paperback 2019). He has been a co-editor of Studies in Church History and an editor of Literature & History. He was President of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2013-15. Jeremy looks forward to supervising PhD students on any aspect of religious history in the long eighteenth century.

  • HANNAH BARKER, CARYS BROWN, KATE GIBSON and JEREMY GREGORY, 2025. OUP.
  • GREGORY, J., ed., 2021. Manchester Cathedral. A History of the Collegiate Church and Cathedral, 1421 to the present Manchester University Press.
  • GREGORY, J., 2019. 鈥楾he Church and nonconformity in Later Stuart England: the wider world of Matthew Henry鈥�. In: COLLINS, M. and MIDDLETON, P., eds., Matthew Henry: The Bible, Prayer, and Piety Bloomsbury. 14-30
  • GREGORY, J., 2017. 'The Anglican Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts: Anniversary Sermons and Abstracts of Proceedings'. In: SCHUNKA, A. and FRIEDRICH, M., eds., Reporting Christian Missions: Communication, Culture of Knowledge and Regular Publication in a Cross-confessional Perspective Harrassowitz. 117-133
  • GREGORY, J., ed., 2017. Establishment and Empire, 1662-1829 vol 2 of The Oxford History of Anglicanism, 5 vols. OUP.
  • GREGORY, J., 2015. . In: GESTRICHT, A. and SCHAICH, M., eds., The Hanoverian Succession. Dynastic Politics and Monarchical Culture Routledge. 107-125
  • GREGORY, J., 2013. . In: FOSTER, S., ed., British North America in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Companion VI. OUP. 136-169
  • GREGORY, J., 2012. . In: GREGORY, J. and MCLEOD, H., eds., International Religious Networks Subsidia 14. Boydell and Brewer. 127-143
  • GREGORY, J., 2012. . In: TAPSELL, G., ed., The Later Stuart Church, 1660-1714 Manchester University Press. 150-172
  • GREGORY, J. and MCLEOD, H., eds., 2012. International Religious Networks: Subsidia 14 Boydell and Brewer.
  • GREGORY, J., 2011. . In: FORSAITH, P.S. and HAMMOND, G., eds., Religion, Gender and Industry: John Fletcher and his world James Clarke & Co Ltd; Wipf and Stock. 1-24
  • GREGORY, J., 2011. . In: GRENBY, M., ed., The State of the Discipline Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies Special Issue 34. 433-444
  • FAULKNER, T., BERRY, H. and GREGORY, J., eds., 2010. Boydell and Brewer.
  • GREGORY, J., 2010. . In: MADDOX, R.L. and VICKERS, J.E., eds., The Cambridge Companion to John Wesley Cambridge University Press. 13-39
  • GREGORY, J., 2010. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (6th Series). 20(12), 85-112
  • GREGORY, J., 2010. Religion in the Age of Enlightenment: putting John Wesley in Context Religion in the Age of Enlightenment. 2, 19-53
  • GREGORY, J., 2009. Social History. 34(1), 29-55
  • GREGORY, J., 2009. Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies. 32(3), 287-305
  • GREGORY, J., ed., 2009. special theme issue, Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
  • COOPER, K. and GREGORY, J., eds., 2008. Boydell and Brewer.
  • GREGORY, J., 2008. . In: GREEN, N. and SEARLE CHATTERJEE, M., eds., Religion, Language and Power Routledge. 143-166
  • GREGORY, J. and STEVENSON, J., 2007. Routledge.
  • COOPER, K. and GREGORY, J., eds., 2007. Boydell and Brewer.
  • GREGORY, J., 2007. Charles Wesley and the Eighteenth Century. In: NEWPORT, K.G.C. and CAMPBELL, T.A., eds., Charles Wesley: Life, Literature & Legacy Epworth Press. 18-39
  • GREGORY, J., 2007. . In: BROOKE, G. and R脰MER, T., eds., Ancient and Modern Scriptural Historiography, L鈥橦istographie Biblique, Ancienne et Moderne (Bibliotheca Ephemeridium Theologicarum Lovaniensium 207), Peeters. 79-95
  • COOPER, K. and GREGORY, J., eds., 2006. Boydell and Brewer.
  • GREGORY, J., 2006. . In: HEFLING, C. and SHATTOCK, C., eds., The Oxford Guide to the Book of Common Prayer Worldwide OUP. 93-105
  • GREGORY, J., ed., 2005. University Library of Manchester 85.
  • COOPER, K. and GREGORY, J., eds., 2005. Boydell and Brewer.
  • GREGORY, J., 2005. "In the Church I will live and die": John Wesley, the Church of England, and Methodism. In: GIBSON, W. and INGRAM, R.G., eds., Religion and Identity in Eighteenth-Century Britain Ashgate. 147-178
  • GREGORY, J., 2005. Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 85; special issue: John Wesley, Tercentenary Essays, ed. Jeremy Gregory. 85(2,3), 1-29
  • GREGORY, J., 2004. . In: KEENE, D., BURNS, A. and SAINT, A., eds., St Paul鈥檚. The Cathedral Church of London, 604-2004 Yale University Press. 343-351
  • GREGORY, J. and BERRY, H., eds., 2004. Creating and Consuming Culture in the North-East of England, 1660-1820 Ashgate.
  • GREGORY, J. and COOPER, K., eds., 2004. Retribution, Repentance and Reconciliation Boydell and Brewer.
  • GREGORY, J., 2004. Secker, Thomas (1693-1768). In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography OUP.
  • GREGORY, J., 2004. In: CLEMENS, T. and JANSE, W., eds., Standards for admission to the ministry of the Church of England in the eighteenth century: Papers read at the British-Dutch Colloquium at Utrecht, 18-21 September 2002 83. Brill. 283-295
  • GREGORY, J. and CHAMBERLAIN, J.S., eds., 2003. Boydell and Brewer.
  • GREGORY, J., 2003. . In: GREGORY, J. and CHAMBERLAIN, J.S., eds., The National Church in Local Perspective: the Church of England and the Regions, 1660-1800 Boydell and Brewer. 29-52
  • GREGORY, J. and CHAMBERLAIN, J.S., 2003. . In: GREGORY, J. and CHAMBERLAIN, J.S., eds., The National Church in Local Perspective: The Church of England and the Regions, 1660-1800 Boydell and Brewer. 1-28
  • GREGORY, J., 2002. The Church of England. In: DICKINSON, H.T., ed., The Blackwell Companion to Eighteenth-Century Britain Blackwell. 225-240
  • GREGORY, J., 2000. OUP.
  • GREGORY, J., BROOKS, C. and COLIN BROOKS AND DAVID NICHOLLS, 2000. . In: BOOTH, A. and HYLAND, P., eds., The Practice of University History Teaching 17-30
  • GREGORY, J. and STEVENSON, J., 1999. Longman.
  • GREGORY, J., 1999. 'Homo religiosus': masculinity and religion in the long eighteenth century. In: HITCHCOCK, T. and COHEN, M., eds., English Masculinities, 1660-1800 Longman. 85-110
  • GREGORY, J., 1998. Persecution, Toleration, Competition, and Indifference: the Church of England and its Rivals in the Long Eighteenth Century. In: D鈥橦AUSSEY, C., ed., Quand Religions et Confessions se Regardent Universite虂 des sciences humaines, Paris. 45-60
  • GREGORY, J., 1998. . In: TYACKE, N., ed., England's Long Reformation, 1500-1800 UCL Press. 307-333
  • GREGORY, J., 1998. . In: SWANSON, R.N., ed., Gender and the Christian Religion 34. Boydell and Brewer. 235-271
  • GREGORY, J., 1997. Christianity and Culture: Religion, the arts and the sciences in England, 1660-1800. In: BLACK, J., ed., Culture and Society in Britain Manchester University Press. 102-123
  • GREGORY, J., 1996. Boydell and Brewer.
  • GREGORY, J., 1995. Canterbury and the Ancien Regime: the Dean and Chapter, 1660-1828. In: COLLINSON, P., RAMSAY, N. and SPARKS, M., eds., A History of Canterbury Cathedral Oxford University Press. 204-255
  • GREGORY, J., 1994. 鈥楻eligion鈥�, 鈥楥hristianity鈥�, 鈥楢nglicanism鈥�, 鈥楥atholicism鈥�, 鈥楾he Papacy鈥�, 鈥楯ews鈥�, 鈥楯esuits鈥� (and other commissioned contributions). In: PORTER, R. and BLACK, J., eds., A Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century World History Blackwell.
  • GREGORY, J., 1993. . In: WALSH, J., HAYDON, C. and TAYLOR, S., eds., The Church of England c. 1689-c. 1833. From Toleration to Tractarianism Cambridge University Press. 67-85
  • GREGORY, J. and BLACK, J., eds., 1991. Culture, Politics and Society in Britain, 1660-1800 Manchester University Press.
  • GREGORY, J., 1991. Anglicanism and the Arts: Religion, Culture and Politics in the Eighteenth Century. In: BLACK, J. and GREGORY, J., eds., Culture, Politics and Society in Britain, 1660-1800 Manchester University Press. 82-109
  • GREGORY, J., 1987. A Just and Sufficient Maintenance: Some Defences of the Clerical Establishment in the Eighteenth Century. In: SHEILS, W.J. and WOODS, D., eds., The Church and Wealth 24. 321-332

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