Tony Claydon

Biography

Tony Claydon was educated at Jesus College, Oxford (BA 1988), and University College London (Phd, 1993), before being appointed a Junior Research Fellow at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge (1992-5). He joined the staff at Bangor in 1995, and has served as Head of the School of History, Welsh History, and Archaeology, Head of the College of Arts and Humanities, as well as Director of the Institute of Medieval and Early Modern (IMEMS) Studies at the Universities of Aberystwyth and Bangor. His doctoral thesis was on William III, and he has continued to research various aspects of religion, political culture and rhetoric, and national identity in the late Stuart era in England and Wales. He is author of William III and the godly revolution (Cambridge University Press, 1996), a study of court propaganda in the 1690s; of Europe and the making of England, 1660-1760 (Cambridge University Press, 2007), a major project on English attitudes to foreign protestants, and the English sense of Europe; and of articles on 'Britishness', and religion in late Stuart England. He also organizes a series of major international conferences on the Restoration in Britain and Ireland that have been held in Bangor since 2005.

Research Interest

Tony Claydon researches, and is willing to supervise doctoral students, in the areas as indicated: religion, political culture, rhetoric, national identity, in Britain and Ireland c.1650-c.1750. See further details on his research strands below. His latest research considers concepts of time in late Stuart England, examining how this affected people's interpretation of events, and their political and religious identities.