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Dr Ashley Walsh
Teams and roles for Ashley Walsh
Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History
Overview
I joined Cardiff University in 2019 as Lecturer in Early Modern History and, since 2023, Senior Lecturer. My field is British and European intellectual history, 1650-1800.
Publication
2027
- Walsh, A. 2027. Toleration. In: Capdeville, V. and Cowan, B. eds. Oxford Handbook of the History of the European Enlightenment. Oxford: Oxford University Press
2026
- Walsh, A. 2026. Intellectual history and the history of ideas. In: Berger, S., Feldner, H. and Passmore, K. eds. Writing History: Theory and Practice. London: Bloomsbury
- Walsh, A. 2026. Politics, power and violence. In: Ingram, R. G. ed. A Cultural History of Christianity in the Age of the Enlightenment (1650-1789). London: Bloomsbury
2025
- Walsh, A. 2025. The Quebec Act (1774) and the Hanoverian church-state relationship. English Historical Review 140(502), pp. 103-133. (10.1093/ehr/ceae093)
- Walsh, A. 2025. Ideas of international Protestant union and the Enlightenment in England and Switzerland, 1688-1722. In: Barducci, M. ed. Debating Enlightenment: Scholarship, Historiography and the Transmission of Books and Ideas. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, pp. 199-224.
2022
- Walsh, A. 2022. The decline of comprehension in the Church of England, 1689-1750. Journal of British Studies 61(3), pp. 702-727. (10.1017/jbr.2022.57)
2020
- Walsh, A. 2020. Civil religion and the Enlightenment in England, 1707-1800. Studies in Modern British Religious History. Boydell & Brewer. (10.2307/j.ctvnwbz0b)
2019
- Walsh, A. 2019. The Saxon republic and ancient constitution in the standing army controversy, 1697-1699. Historical Journal 62(3), pp. 663-684. (10.1017/S0018246X18000316)
2018
- Walsh, A. 2018. John Streater and the Saxon republic. History of Political Thought 39(1), pp. 57-82.
Articles
- Walsh, A. 2025. The Quebec Act (1774) and the Hanoverian church-state relationship. English Historical Review 140(502), pp. 103-133. (10.1093/ehr/ceae093)
- Walsh, A. 2022. The decline of comprehension in the Church of England, 1689-1750. Journal of British Studies 61(3), pp. 702-727. (10.1017/jbr.2022.57)
- Walsh, A. 2019. The Saxon republic and ancient constitution in the standing army controversy, 1697-1699. Historical Journal 62(3), pp. 663-684. (10.1017/S0018246X18000316)
- Walsh, A. 2018. John Streater and the Saxon republic. History of Political Thought 39(1), pp. 57-82.
Book sections
- Walsh, A. 2027. Toleration. In: Capdeville, V. and Cowan, B. eds. Oxford Handbook of the History of the European Enlightenment. Oxford: Oxford University Press
- Walsh, A. 2026. Intellectual history and the history of ideas. In: Berger, S., Feldner, H. and Passmore, K. eds. Writing History: Theory and Practice. London: Bloomsbury
- Walsh, A. 2026. Politics, power and violence. In: Ingram, R. G. ed. A Cultural History of Christianity in the Age of the Enlightenment (1650-1789). London: Bloomsbury
- Walsh, A. 2025. Ideas of international Protestant union and the Enlightenment in England and Switzerland, 1688-1722. In: Barducci, M. ed. Debating Enlightenment: Scholarship, Historiography and the Transmission of Books and Ideas. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, pp. 199-224.
Books
- Walsh, A. 2020. Civil religion and the Enlightenment in England, 1707-1800. Studies in Modern British Religious History. Boydell & Brewer. (10.2307/j.ctvnwbz0b)
Research
My research and teaching involve the intellectual, religious, and political history of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Britain and Europe. I am particularly interested in the relationship between Christianity and ideas of philosophy and politics during the Enlightenment.
I am currently writing a book that will be an intellectual history of the relationship between the Enlightenment and arguments for and against Catholic relief, toleration, and emancipation in Britain, Ireland, and the British Empire between the failure of the second Jacobite rebellion in 1745 and the union between Britain and Ireland of 1800-1 when George III vetoed the proposal of the ministry of William Pitt the Younger to emancipate the Catholics. More familiarly to historians, the issue would beset British and Irish politics until the Roman Catholic Relief Act of 1829. The book involves themes of the Protestant and Catholic Enlightenment, toleration, secularisation, the church-state relationship, early modern readings of medieval conciliarism, and the emergence of modern concepts of the state.
Teaching
Year 1
HS1105: The Making of the Modern World, 1750-1970
HS1117: Renaissance, Reformation, and Revolution
HS1119: History in Practice Part I: Questions, Frameworks and Audiences
HS1120: History in Practice Part II: Sources, Evidence and Argument
Year 2
HS6201: Reading History
HS6202: Making History: Historians, Evidence, Audiences
HS6203: Debating History
HS6215: European Enlightenment(s): The View from the Margins
Year 3
HS6300: Researching History: Dissertation
MA in History
HST081: Sources and Evidence: Advanced Historical Research Skills
HST083: Theories, Methods and Practices of History
HST085: Writing History: Dissertation Preparation
HST086: Dissertation
Biography
I took my MA, MPhil, and PhD degrees at Downing College, Cambridge, after which I taught at the University of Cambridge and Durham University before coming to Cardiff University as Lecturer and, since 2023, Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History.
Academic positions
- 2023-present: Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History, Cardiff University
- 2019-2023: Lecturer in Early Modern History, Cardiff University
- 2014-2019: Supervisor, University of Cambridge
- 2017-2018: Temporary Lecturer in Early Modern History, Durham University
Contact Details
Research themes
Specialisms
- 18th century
- 17th century
- Enlightenment
- Political thought
- Intellectual history
