Religion and Society in the Diocese of St Davids 1485-2011

Professor William Gibson is Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Oxford Brookes University and Director of the Oxford Centre for Methodism and Church History. His most recent publications are The Church of England 1689-1832: Unity and Accord, (2001); The Enlightenment Prelate: Benjamin Hoadly 1676-1761, (2004); James II and the Trial of the Seven Bishops (2009) and the Oxford Handbook of the British Sermon 1689-1901 (2012) He has extensive experience of editorial work and managing collections of essays, including joint editorship of Religious Identities in Britain, 1660-1832, (with Robert Ingram, Ashgate, 2005); Politics, Religion and Dissent: 1660-1832, edited jointly with Robert Cornwall (Ashgate, 2010) and is book reviews editor for Archives, the journal of the British Records Association. He is co-editor of Wesley and Methodist Studies. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of the Royal Society of Arts. Dr John Morgan-Guy was from 2005-8 the Arts & Humanities Research Council Research Fellow in the department of Theology and Religious Studies at University of Wales, Lampeter (now University of Wales Trinity St David). He is currently a Lecturer in Theology and Church History in the same department, and an Honorary Research Fellow of the University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. From 1999-2004 he was a Research Fellow at the University of Wales' Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies at Aberystwyth, collaborating with the art historian Peter Lord on the major research project 'The Visual Culture of Wales'. He is the author of numerous books and articles on ecclesiastical and medical history, and has contributed to publications in the field of visual culture.