ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY SOCIETY
The Ecclesiastical History Society (EHS) aims to foster interest in,
and to advance the study of, all areas of the history of the Christian
Churches.
is open to:
Members receive a regular newsletter and are entitled to a discount on the Society's publications. The subscription is currently GBP10 / EUR20 / USD25 per annum (GBP5 / EUR10 / USD12.50 for postgraduate students and retired members), payable by cheque in pounds sterling or euros.
To download a membership application form, click here. If you are a UK taxpayer, we also encourage you to download and complete a gift aid form.
We now have an introductory leaflet available which outlines the benefits of joining the Society. If you would like a supply to pass on to postgraduate students, conference delegates or others, please contact the Assistant Editor, Dr Tim Grass, email: grass.family@tesco.net.
19 October 2009: Please note that, for the moment, all questions concerning membership of the EHS – including changes of address – should be addressed to the Secretary, Dr Stella Fletcher, e-mail: stella@ravenna123.freeserve.co.uk.
For the Society's constitution, click here ...
For a list of Officers and Committee members, click here ...
are held twice a year. A residential conference in July and a one-day conference the following January are organized around a theme proposed by the Society's President.
The conferences for 2010-11 will be on the theme of THE CHURCH AND LITERATURE, under the presidency of Dr Sheridan Gilley (University of Durham). For a description of the theme and a list of the main speakers, click here.
The Summer Conference will be held at the University of St Andrews, from 21-24 July 2010. It will begin at 4 pm on the Wednesday and conclude with breakfast on the Saturday, an optional day excursion being arranged on that day.
EHS Conference Bursaries: The Society offers a number of conference bursaries to postgraduate members who have had communications accepted by the Editors for presentation at the Summer Conference. Applications should be made using the bursary form, and returned to the Editors by 1 May 2010.
Anglo-Catholic History Society Bursary: A single bursary for the Summer Conference may be funded by the Anglo-Catholic History Society for a communication on a topic in keeping with that Society’s interests. The application process is the same as for the EHS bursaries.
Michael Kennedy Prize: The Society awards an annual prize of £150 for the best postgraduate communication given at the Summer Conference. This is chosen after the conference by the President and the Editors of Studies in Church History.
The Winter Meeting will be held in London on 8 January 2011.
Provisional dates for future Summer Conferences and Winter Meetings
2011: 7 January, London; 17-20 August, Oxford (NB: note the change of month)
2012: 12 January, London; 18-21 July, Bangor, Wales
2013: 17-20 July
EHS Postgraduate Colloquium, University of Manchester, 13 March 2010
On behalf of the Committee of the Ecclesiastical History Society, we invite research student members – or prospective members – of the EHS to the next Postgraduate Colloquium on the History of Christianity, to be held at the University of Manchester on Saturday 13 March 2010. This has traditionally been an informal opportunity for students to get to know one another and to learn about each other’s work, and the papers are at least as interesting as those at the main conference! We would welcome offers of twenty-minute papers (on any topic in the history of Christianity). This will be followed by ten minutes for questions and discussion.Please contact Geordan Hammond, ghammond@nazarene.ac.uk. It would be helpful if you could send your name, department, institution, supervisor’s name, and proposed title to Geordan by 1 February 2010. We look forward to seeing you in Manchester.
Kate Cooper
Jeremy Gregory
Other conferences
For other conferences of interest, click here.
The Society of Archivists has received funding from the Pilgrim Trust and The National Archives to carry out a questionnaire-based survey of religious archives, of all faith traditions, in the UK. This project began in December 2009 and will be carried out over the next six months. For further information, news and updates please go to http://rylibweb.man.ac.uk/rag2/activities/RAGSurvey.html. The project results from an initiative of the Religious Archives Group and is jointly managed by the Society of Archivists and the National Archives with the support of a steering committee chaired by Dr Clive Field.
Details are posted here as received.
Details are posted here as received.
The Institute of Irish Studies at the University of Liverpool is pleased to announce the creation of a number of fees-only studentships for prospective PhD students from any country outside the EU. These are worth £25,200 - £28,200 over 3 years. These can be in any area of Irish Studies, where there is existing expertise in the Institute – though currently the area of Irish Literature is over-subscribed. Candidates wishing to work in the following areas will be particularly welcome:
· Gaelic ecclesiastical history
· The Vikings in Ireland
· Irish theatre/drama
· W.B.Yeats
· Irish women’s history (particularly 19th – early 20th century)
· Contemporary Northern Irish history/politics
Scholarships may be taken up at any time during 2010 commencing 1st February 2010.
Applications (to include a C.V., a one page outline of the topic to be researched and names of two academic referees) to be addressed to:
Dr Diane Urquhart
The Institute of Irish Studies
University of Liverpool
1, Abercromby Square
Liverpool
L69 7WY
Or email Urquhart@liverpool.ac.uk
Please note: Applicants also need to follow procedures to apply to graduate study at the University of Liverpool website or email Urquhart@liverpool.ac.uk; see the following for details http://www.liv.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/research opportunities/irish studies research.htm
For links to other websites in the field of church history, click here.
Selected proceedings of the Society's conferences are published in the series Studies in Church History, now at its forty-fifth volume, The Church, the Afterlife and the Fate of the Soul.
Past titles include: The Church and War; Women and the Church; Christianity and Judaism; The Church and Childhood; Unity and Diversity in the Church; Continuity and Change in Christian Worship; The Church and the Book; The Church and Mary; Retribution, Repentance, and Reconciliation; Signs, Wonders, Miracles: Representations of Divine Power in the Life of the Church; Elite and Popular Religion; Discipline and Diversity; Revival and Resurgence in Christian History.
These books are normally available at a discounted price to EHS members.
Discounted Books
available - Sale of Back Stock
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Essential Information for contributors to Studies in Church History
To download a copy of the Notes for Contributors please click here.
A List of Abbreviations is available by clicking here.
The Peer Review pro-forma is available by clicking here.