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Ashley Walsh

Dr Ashley Walsh

Lecturer in Early Modern History

School of History, Archaeology and Religion

Email
WalshA6@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone
+44 29208 79731
Campuses
John Percival Building, Room 4.57, Colum Drive, Cardiff, CF10 3EU
Users
Available for postgraduate supervision

Overview

I joined the History Department at Cardiff University in October 2019 as Lecturer in Early Modern History. My research and teaching focus on the intellectual, religious, and political history of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Britain and Europe as well as the history of political thought. I am especially interested in the history of civil religion in the 'long Reformation' and the Enlightenment, showing how lay and clerical intellectuals drew on the political and religious ideas of the classical world, Renaissance, and Protestant Reformation in their analyses of the church-state relationship and defences of religious toleration. I explore these and related themes in my recent monograph, Civil Religion and the Enlightenment in England, 1707-1800 (2020) and in articles in the Historical Journal, History of Political Thought, English Historical Review,  and Journal of British Studies.

Publication

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

Erthyglau

Llyfrau

Research

I am an intellectual, religious, and political historian of early modern Europe with a particular interest in the relationship between religion and the Enlightenment and the history of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century political thought. I am especially interested in the history of civil religion in the 'long Reformation' and the Enlightenment, showing how lay and clerical intellectuals drew on the political and religious ideas of the classical world, Renaissance, and Protestant Reformation in their analyses of the church-state relationship and defences of religious toleration. I explore these and related themes in my recent monograph, Civil Religion and the Enlightenment in England, 1707-1800 (2020) and in articles in the Historical Journal, History of Political Thought, English Historical Review,  and Journal of British Studies.

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
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 in Early Modern History.

Honours and awards

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

  • 2019-present: Lecturer in Early Modern History, Cardiff University
  • 2014-2019: Supervisor, University of Cambridge
  • 2017-2018: Teaching Fellow in Early Modern History, Durham University

Supervisions

Current supervision

Andrew Frow-jones

Andrew Frow-jones

Research student