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Dr Ashley Walsh
Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History
School of History, Archaeology and Religion
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Overview
I joined the History Department at Cardiff University in 2019 as Lecturer in Early Modern History and, since 2023, Senior Lecturer. My research and teaching focus on 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.
Publication
2025
- Walsh, A. 2025. Ideas of international Protestant union and the Enlightenment in England and Switzerland. In: Barducci, M. ed. Debating Enlightenment: Scholarship, Historiography and the Transmission of Books and Ideas. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer
- Walsh, A. 2025. Politics, power & violence. In: Ingram, R. G. ed. A Cultural History of Christianity in the age of the Enlightenment. London: Bloomsbury
2024
- Walsh, A. 2024. The Quebec Act (1774) and the Hanoverian church-state relationship. English Historical Review (10.1093/ehr/ceae093)
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. 2024. The Quebec Act (1774) and the Hanoverian church-state relationship. English Historical Review (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. 2025. Ideas of international Protestant union and the Enlightenment in England and Switzerland. In: Barducci, M. ed. Debating Enlightenment: Scholarship, Historiography and the Transmission of Books and Ideas. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer
- Walsh, A. 2025. Politics, power & violence. In: Ingram, R. G. ed. A Cultural History of Christianity in the age of the Enlightenment. London: Bloomsbury
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 focus on 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.
Teaching
Year 1
HS0001: A World Full of Gods
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
HS1801: Dissertation
HS1802: Ridicule, Republics, Revolutions: The (Awkward) Enlightenment in England
MA in History
HST079: Reading Modernity
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.
Honours and awards
Research fellowships
- Francis J. Weber Research Fellowship in Roman Catholic History, Huntington Library (2024-5)
- Cardiff University/University of Wyoming Collaborative Seed Fund (2024-5)
Teaching awards
- Supervisor of the Year 2018-19, Department for Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge (£100 honorarium)
Professional memberships
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
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: Teaching Fellow in Early Modern History, Durham University
Contact Details
+44 29208 79731
John Percival Building, Room 4.57, Colum Drive, Cardiff, CF10 3EU
Research themes
Specialisms
- 18th century
- 17th century
- Enlightenment
