Edward Royle
{{short description|British academic (born 1944)}}
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Edward Royle (born 29 March 1944) is a British academic who is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of York and author of several books on the history of religious ideas, particularly in York and Yorkshire.
Career
Royle gained his PhD at the University of Cambridge. He spent the majority of his career in the Department of History at the University of York, where he retired as an emeritus professor. He is an active member of the University's Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies. His main research interests have been in the history of York and Yorkshire since the mid-eighteenth century.
Professor Royle is a local Methodist Preacher.[http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/cecs/staff/royle/er.htm biographical note from University of York History Department]
Works
- {{cite book |title= Radical Politics, 1790–1900: Religion and Unbelief |publisher=Longman |year=1971}}
- {{cite book |title=Victorian Infidels: the Origins of the British Secularist Movement, 1791–1861 |publisher=Manchester University Press |year=1974 |url=http://www.secularism.org.uk/uploads/3542a971e965ac1647844952.pdf |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20051030113212/http://www.secularism.org.uk/uploads/3542a971e965ac1647844952.pdf |archivedate=30 October 2005 |df=dmy-all }}
- (as editor) {{cite book |title=Infidel Tradition: From Paine to Bradlaugh |url=https://archive.org/details/infideltradition0000unse |url-access=registration |publisher=Macmillan| year=1976 }}
- {{cite book |title= Radicals, Secularists and Republicans: popular freethought in Britain, 1866–1915 |publisher=Manchester University Press |year=1980 |isbn=9780847662944 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=pQkNAQAAIAAJ&q=edward+royle}}
- (with James Walvin) {{cite book |title=English Radicials and Reformers 1760–1848 |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |year=1982}}
- {{cite book |title= The Victorian Church in York |series= Borthwick Paper |volume= 64 |publisher=Borthwick Institute |year=1983}}
- {{cite book |title= Nonconformity in Nineteenth-century York |series= Borthwick Paper |volume= 68 |publisher=Borthwick Institute |year=1985}}
- {{cite book |title= A History of the Nonconformist Churches of York |series= Borthwick Texts and Calendars |volume= 18 |publisher=Borthwick Institute |year=1993}}
- {{cite book |title= Chartism |publisher=Longman |edition=3rd |year=1996}}
- {{cite book |title= Modern Britain: A Social History 1750–1997 |publisher=Arnold |edition= 2nd |year=1997}}
- {{cite book |title= Robert Owen and the Commencement of the Millennium. A study of the Harmony Community |publisher=Manchester University Press |year=1998 |isbn=9780719054266 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=fAgNAQAAIAAJ&q=edward+royle}}
- {{cite book |title= The Eighteenth-Century Church in Yorkshire |series= Borthwick Paper |volume= 95 |publisher=Borthwick Institute |year=1999}}
- {{cite book |title= Revolutionary Britannia? Reflections on the Threats of Revolution in Britain , 1789–1848 |publisher= Manchester University Press |year=2000 |isbn= 9780719048036 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=QOH6RjquDzcC&dq=edward+royle&pg=PP1}}
- (editor, with Ruth M. Larsen) {{cite book |title= Archbishop Thomson's Visitation Returns for the Diocese of York , 1865 |series= Borthwick Texts and Studies |volume= 34 |publisher=Borthwick Institute |year=2006}}
References
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