Gerhard Besier is Professor of Modern European History at the University of Dresden. He has written a succession of books on the churches during the Third Reich and on the relationship between religion, politics and society. He is the founder and editor of the international journal Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte/ Contemporary Church History.
Peter Blee is the vicar of Berwick in the diocese of Chichester. His research interests embrace the church and the Arts.
Charmian Brinson is Professor of German Studies at Imperial College, University of London. Her research interests have focussed in particular on German and Austrian Exile Studies, especially on the study of German and Austrian Exiles in Britain between 1933 and 1945. She has published extensively in this area and has given numerous lectures and conference papers on the subject in Britain and abroad. She is a founder member of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies at the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies (School of Advanced Study, University of London), and is a member of the Editorial Board of the Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies.
Geoffrey Chorley lectures at Liverpool Hope University. His research interest concern the history of education in Britain and the Methodist contribution to educational theory.
Philip Coupland is a historian of modern British political and religious history. He was a researched on the EU’s ‘The Churches and European Integration’ programme, based in this country at the University of Glasgow. His book, Britannia, Europa and Christendom British Christians and European Integration was published in 2005.
Michael Ford is retired and lives in Chichester. For some years he has researched the relationship between Bishop Bell and the Arts.
Tamara Grdzelidze has served on the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches.
Dianne Kirby is senior lecturer in the School of History and International Affairs at the University of Ulster. She has published a succession of books on the relationship between religion and politics during the Cold War.
Tom Lawson is a lecturer in modern history at the University of Winchester. His book, The Church of England and the Holocaust was published in 2005.
Charlotte Methuen is a lecturer in ecclesiastical history at the Faculty of Theology at the University of Oxford. She has published a number of books and article in the realm of Reformation studies and twentieth century ecumenical history.
Joseph Mutharaj lectures at the United Theological College, Bangalore. His research interests embrace the history and theology of episcopacy and the history of the Church of South India.
John Nurser taught at Lincoln Theological College and is the author of a succession of studies of the churches and European union.
James Radcliffe worked for the Foreign Office before retirement. His research interests embrace Bishop Bell and the refugee crisis, 1933-9.
Mary Tanner has served as Chair of the Council for Christian Unity of the General Synod of the Church of England.
Peter Webster is Editorial Controller of British History Online, based at the IHR. His research interests embrace the relationship between the arts and Christian theology in England, particulary in the 16th, 17th and 20th centuries; the role and nature of church music; church patronage of the contemporary arts; the patronage of George Bell, (Bishop of Chichester) and Walter Hussey (Vicar of St Matthew's, Northampton and later Dean of Chichester.)
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