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The Creation of State Anniversaries: James VI and I and the Politics of Thanksgiving (2024)
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Williamson, P., & Mears, N. (online). The Creation of State Anniversaries: James VI and I and the Politics of Thanksgiving. The English Historical Review, Article ceae205. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceae205

Religious anniversaries ordered by the state—by the monarch, royal council or parliament—were observed in England and Ireland from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. These have been studied chiefly as occasions for special sermons and popul... Read More about The Creation of State Anniversaries: James VI and I and the Politics of Thanksgiving.

Hensley Henson and the appointment of bishops: state, church and nation in England, 1917–1920 and Beyond (2023)
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Williamson, P. (2023). Hensley Henson and the appointment of bishops: state, church and nation in England, 1917–1920 and Beyond. Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 74(2), 325-348. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022046922002032

The nomination of Hensley Henson as bishop of Hereford in 1917 provoked a famous ecclesiastical controversy, the ‘Hereford scandal’, which threatened a split within the Church of England and a crisis between the Church and the State. The point of con... Read More about Hensley Henson and the appointment of bishops: state, church and nation in England, 1917–1920 and Beyond.

The Church of England and constitutional reform: the Enabling Act in British politics and English religion, 1913–1928 (2023)
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Williamson, P. (2023). The Church of England and constitutional reform: the Enabling Act in British politics and English religion, 1913–1928. Journal of British Studies, 62(2), 445-475. https://doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2022.174

In 1919, a parliamentary act reconstructed the relations between the British state and the Church of England. The passage of this act had considerable constitutional, political, ecclesiastical, and religious significance, and it is best understood by... Read More about The Church of England and constitutional reform: the Enabling Act in British politics and English religion, 1913–1928.