Overview
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; The revolution in time (Oxford University Press, 2020) - a study of how people who lived through the revolution of 1688-9 conceptualised chronology, modernity and progress, 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.
Teaching and Supervision
Areas of Teaching & Supervision
BA
The Birth of Modern Europe? Society and the state 1450-1550
England and Wales, 1618-1715
The European reformation and counter-reformation
Royal propaganda in early modern England
Ruled by an Orange: Britain under William III, 1688-1702
MA
National identities in Britain, Ireland and America, 1660-1682
PhDs
I am willing to supervise PhD projects on a wide range of early modern history: but particularly on topics around the print, politcal, and religious, culture of late Stuart England and Wales.
Completed
Stuart Bradley, ‘The itineraries of Archbishop John Morton’ (2015)
Samuel Garland, ‘News culture in later Stuart England’ (2016)
Anna-Karina Ruhl, ‘Views of Germany in the English Press, 1618-1714’ (2018)
Eidon Joo, ‘The theology of Archbishop John Tillotson, 1630-1694’ (2018)
In progress
Alastair Barnet, 'The navy and the construction of Charles II's regime'
Terry Lennaine, 'The image of Oliver Cromwell in the press, 1660-1714'
Research Interests
Current project: An 80,000 word biography of William III
For the Routledge HIstorical Biographies series, this will provide an accessible life history of William III - concentrating on areas of study that have recently become active, and which intersect with my wider interests. These include presentation of rule, masculinity and power, the effects of an emerging public sphere, and historical identities - alongside the standard political, military, and religious themes one needs to cover to understand this figure.
Recent Project: Time in later Stuart England and Wales, 1660-1714
In recent years I have been interested in how the people of later Stuart England and Wales perceived time – particularly exploring how they periodised history (important for their sense of their place in the unfolding of chronology, and so for their political, cultural and religious priorities); and the theory that a new and ‘modern’ sense of time emerged in the early modern era – ensuring that people saw time as progressive, ‘empty’, and flowing, rather than as repeating basic patterns that meant it was ‘full’ of the moral meanings God had encoded within it (my investigations have led me to be sceptical of these ideas – whilst acknowledging that notions of time were varied in the seventeenth century). Work has resulted on articles in the Journal of British Studies on daily news and the construction of time; and in the Historical Journal and Studies in Church History on Gilbert Burnet’s periodization of reformation and recent history; and in Etudes Episteme on the dating of the Reformation in late Stuart England. I recently finished a book on the placing of the Glorious Revolution in time by those whose experienced it.
Publications
2021
- PublishedGlorious Revolution
Claydon, T., 15 Sept 2021, Handbuch Liberalisms. Festl, M. G. (ed.). Berlin: J.B.Metzler, p. 403-410 8 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
2020
- PublishedThe revolution in time: Chronology, modernity and 1688-1689 in England
Claydon, T., 30 Jan 2020, Oxford: Oxford: OUP. 272 p. (The Past and Present Book Series)
Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
2017
- PublishedThe "Balance of Power" in British Arguments over Peace, 1697–1713
Claydon, A., 27 Jan 2017, New Worlds? : Transformations in the Culture of International Relations around the Peace of Utrecht 1713. Schmidt-Voges, I. (ed.). Routledge, (Politics and Culture in Europe, 1650-1750).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter - PublishedThe church of England and the churches of Europe: Chapter 18
Claydon, A., 1 Oct 2017, The Oxford History of Anglicanism: Volume II: Establishment and Empire, 1662-1829. Gregory, J. (ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter - PublishedThe reformation of the future: dating English protestantism in the late Stuart era
Claydon, A., 20 Dec 2017, In: Etudes-Episteme. 32, p. 1-25
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2015
- PublishedLouis XIV Outside In: Images of the Sun King Beyond France, 1661-1715
Claydon, A. M. (Editor), Claydon, T. (Editor) & Levillain, C. E. (Editor), 1 Dec 2015, Ashgate Publishing.
Research output: Book/Report › Book - PublishedLouis XIV Upside Down? Interpreting the Sun King's Image
Claydon, A. M., Claydon, T. & Levillain, C. E., 1 Dec 2015, Louis XIV Outside In: Images of the Sun King Beyond France, 1661-1715, Politics and Culture in Europe, 1650–1750. Ashgate Publishing, p. 1-24
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter - PublishedToryism and the world in the later Stuart era, 1679-1714
Claydon, A. M., Claydon, T. & Black, J. (Editor), 1 Mar 2015, The Tory world: deep history and the Tory theme in British foreign policy: 1679-2014. Ashgate Publishing, p. 21-32
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter - PublishedWhen did the “long eighteenth century” begin?
Claydon, A. M., Claydon, T., Dunyach, J. F. (Editor) & Mairey, A. (Editor), 11 Jun 2015, Les âges de Britannia : repenser l'histoire des mondes britanniques. 2015 ed. Presses Universitaires de Rennes, p. 99-106
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
2013
- PublishedDaily News and the Construction of Time in Late Stuart England, 1695–1714
Claydon, A. M., 15 Feb 2013, In: Journal of British Studies. 52, p. 55-78
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review - PublishedGilbert Burnet: An Ecclesiastical Historian and the Invention of the English Restoration Era
Claydon, A. M. & Claydon, T., 1 Jan 2013, Church on its Past. 2013 ed. Unknown, p. 178-188
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter - PublishedThe revolution in foreign policy, 1688-1713
Claydon, A. M., Claydon, T., Harris, T. (Editor) & Taylor, S. (Editor), 20 Jun 2013, The Final Crisis of the Stuart Monarchy: The Revolutions of 1688-91 in their British: Atlantic and European Contexts. 2013 ed. The Boydell Press, p. 219-241
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
2012
- PublishedA European general in the English press: the print image of the duke of Marlborough in the Stuart realms
Claydon, A. M., Hattendorf, B. (Editor), Veenendaal, A. J. (Editor) & van Hövell tot Westerflier, R. (Editor), 1 Jan 2012, Marlborough: soldier and diplomat. 2012 ed. Karwansaray
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter - PublishedThe Church of England and the churches of Europe
Claydon, A. M., Claydon, T. & Tapsell, G. (Editor), 1 Nov 2012, The Later Stuart Church: 1660-1714. 2012 ed. Manchester University Press
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
2011
- PublishedIntroduction: living with masquerade: the recent scholarship of the 1670s in the Stuart realms
Claydon, A. M., Claydon, T. & Corns, T. N., 1 Jan 2011, Religion, culture, and national community in the 1670s. 2011 ed. University of Wales Press, p. 1-9
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter - PublishedLiving with masquerade: the recent scholarship of the 1670s in the Stuart realms
Claydon, A. M., Claydon, T., Corns, T. N. & Corns, T. N. (Editor), 15 Jun 2011, Religion: Culture and National Community in the 1670s. 2011 ed. University Wales Press
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter - PublishedReligion, culture and national community in the 1670s
Claydon, A. M. (Editor), Claydon, T. (Editor) & Corns, T. N. (Editor), 15 Jun 2011, 2011 ed. University Wales Press.
Research output: Book/Report › Book - PublishedReligion, culture, and national community in the 1670s
Claydon, T., Corns, T. N. & Claydon, A. M. (Editor), 1 Jan 2011, 2011 ed. University of Wales Press.
Research output: Book/Report › Book - PublishedSaints and sanctity
Claydon, T., Clarke, P. & Claydon, A. M. (Editor), 1 Jan 2011, 2011 ed. Boydell and Brewer.
Research output: Book/Report › Book - PublishedThe sermon culture of the Glorious Revolution: Williamite preaching and Jacobite anti-preaching, 1685-1702
Claydon, A. M., McCullough, P. (Editor), Adlington, H. (Editor) & Rhatigan, E. (Editor), 1 Jan 2011, The Oxford Handbook of the Early Modern Sermon. 2011 ed. Oxford University Press
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
2010
- PublishedGod's Bounty? The churches and the natural world.
Claydon, A. M., Clarke, P. (Editor) & Claydon, T. (Editor), 1 Jan 2010, 2010 ed. Boydell and Brewer.
Research output: Book/Report › Book - PublishedGod’s bounty? The churches and the natural world
Claydon, A. M. (Editor), Clarke, P. (Editor) & Claydon, T. (Editor), 15 Apr 2010, 2010 ed. Ecclesiastical History Society.
Research output: Book/Report › Book - PublishedThe press images of Marlborough and Sacheverell and the nature of party politics in Queen Anne's reign.
Claydon, A. M. & Claydon, T., 1 Jan 2010.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
2009
- PublishedBritish networks and the Glorious Revolution, 1688-1689
Claydon, A. M. & Claydon, T., 1 Jan 2009, In: Odysseus. 1, p. 70-86
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review - PublishedSecularisation and language in the long eighteenth century.
Claydon, A. M. & Claydon, T., 1 Jan 2009.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedThe Church, the Afterlife and the Fate of the Soul: Papers Read at the 2007 Summer Meeting and the 2008 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society (Studies in Church History)
Claydon, A. M. (Editor), Clarke, P. (Editor) & Claydon, T. (Editor), 1 Jan 2009, 2009 ed. Ecclesiastical History Society.
Research output: Book/Report › Book - PublishedThe church, the afterlife and the fate of the soul
Claydon, A. M. (Editor), Clarke, P. (Editor) & Claydon, T. (Editor), 16 Apr 2009, 2009 ed. Ecclesiastical History Society.
Research output: Book/Report › Book - PublishedThe recent English historiography of the Glorious Revolution.
Claydon, A. M. & Claydon, T., 1 Jan 2009, In: Odysseus. 1, p. 27-42
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2008
- PublishedLatitudinarianism and apocalyptic history in the worldview of Gilbert Burnet, 1643-1715.
Claydon, A. M., 1 Sept 2008, In: Historical Journal. 51, 3, p. 577-597
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review - PublishedLatitudinarianism and modernity.
Claydon, A. M. & Claydon, T., 1 Jan 2008.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedLatitudinarianism and modernity.
Claydon, A. M. & Claydon, T., 1 Jan 2008.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedThe ecclesiology of the tory party, 1688-1715.
Claydon, A. M. & Claydon, T., 1 Jan 2008.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
2007
- PublishedEurope and the making of England, 1660-1760.
Claydon, A. M. & Claydon, T., 1 Jan 2007, Cambridge University Press.
Research output: Book/Report › Book - PublishedGilbert Burnet’s apocalyptic view of history.
Claydon, A. M. & Claydon, T., 1 Jan 2007.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedProtestantantism, universal monarchy and Christendom in the ideology of William's war, 1689-1697.
Claydon, A. M., Claydon, T., Mijers, E. (Editor) & Onnekink, D. (Editor), 1 Jan 2007, Redefining William III: The Impact of the King-Stadholder in International Context. 2007 ed. Ashgate, p. 125-143
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter - PublishedWilliam and Mary.
Claydon, A. M., Claydon, T. & Speck, W. A., 1 Jan 2007, Oxford University Press.
Research output: Book/Report › Book
2006
- PublishedThe international church in tory thought, 1660-1714.
Claydon, A. M. & Claydon, T., 1 Jan 2006.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
2005
- PublishedInternational protestantism and Christendom in the war propaganda of the second Anglo-Dutch war.
Claydon, A. M. & Claydon, T., 1 Jan 2005.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedWhen did the eighteenth century begin?
Claydon, A. M. & Claydon, T., 1 Jan 2005.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
2004
- PublishedReligious thought in English foreign policy, 1660-1713.
Claydon, A. M. & Claydon, T., 1 Jan 2004.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper - PublishedWilliam Basset.
Claydon, A. M., Claydon, T., Matthew, H. C. (Editor) & Harrison, B. (Editor), 1 Jan 2004, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: 4. 2004 ed. Oxford University Press, p. 273-274
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter - PublishedWilliam Binckes.
Claydon, A. M., Claydon, T., Matthew, H. C. (Editor) & Harrison, B. (Editor), 1 Jan 2004, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: 5. 2004 ed. Oxford University Press, p. 742-743
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter - PublishedWilliam III.
Claydon, A. M., Claydon, T., Matthew, H. C. (Editor) & Harrison, B. (Editor), 1 Jan 2004, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: 59. 2004 ed. Oxford University Press, p. 73-98
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
2002
- PublishedWilliam III: Profiles in Power.
Claydon, A. M. & Claydon, T., 1 Jan 2002, Longman.
Research output: Book/Report › Book
2001
- PublishedHolland, Hanover and the fluidity of facts: further thoughts on national identity.
Claydon, A. M., Claydon, T., Canning, J. P. (Editor) & Wellenreuther, H. (Editor), 1 Jan 2001, Britain and Germany compared in the eighteenth century. 2001 ed. Wallstein, p. 85-98
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
2000
- PublishedThe sermon, the "public sphere" and the political culture of late seventeenth-century England.
Claydon, A. M., Claydon, T., Ferrell, L. A. (Editor) & McCullough, P. E. (Editor), 1 Jan 2000, The English sermon revised: religion, literature and history, 1600-1750. 2000 ed. Manchester University Press, p. 208-234
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Activities
2019
- University of Tokyo, Komaba Campus
Fellowship at the University of Tokyo: teaching graduate course, giving invited research lecture, running day workshop
1 Oct 2019 – 31 Oct 2019
Activity: Visiting an external academic institution (Visiting researcher) - Bangor Conference on the Restoration, Bangor UK
Bangor Conference on the Restoration: Memory, Remembering and Commemoration in the Stuart World, 1658-1715. (Organiser of regular international conference)
30 Jul 2019 – 1 Aug 2019
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Organiser) - Cambridge Symposium of the work of Mark Goldie
Day long workshop to discuss work and influence of the historian, Mark Goldie
16 Jul 2019
Activity: Participation in Academic workshop, seminar, course (Speaker)
2018
- William III and the birth of the modern world
Lecture on 'William III and the Modern World' for the Bangor branch of the U3A
25 Mar 2018
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Speaker)
2017
- Bangor Conference on the Restoration, Bangor UK
Conference organiser
25 Jul 2017 – 29 Jul 2017
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Organiser) - William III's impact in England: lecture at Het Loo Conference NL
15 May 2017
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Invited talk (Speaker)
2016
- 1689: the revolution in time: talk at Cambridge day symposium
27 May 2016
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Invited talk (Speaker) - 'Time and the Revolution of 1688' : Lyon Conference on 1688
Invited to give a talk at conference on 1688/9 hosted by ENS Lyons / University de Lyon Descartes
15 Jan 2016
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Invited talk (Speaker)
2015
- Bangor Conference on the Restoration, Bangor UK
28 Jul 2015 – 30 Jul 2015
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Organiser) - Concluding Remarks: Paris Conference on reputation of Louis XIV
5 Jun 2015
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Invited talk (Speaker)
2014
- Time and the revolution of 1688/9: Reading Plenary Lecture
Invited plenary address
8 Jul 2014
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Invited talk (Speaker) - Tokyo University Research Seminar
29 Apr 2014
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Invited talk (Speaker) - Kyoto University Research Seminar
18 Apr 2014
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Invited talk (Speaker) - Fellowship at University of Toyko
Research, teaching graduate class and giving research papers at the Komaba Campus of Tokyo University
1 Apr 2014 – 30 Apr 2014
Activity: Types of External academic engagement - Research and Teaching at External Organisation (Member) - Sacred and Secular Revolutions: the Atlantic World of the C18th
Session chair at Huntington Library Conference: Sacred and Secular Revolutions in the Atlantic World of C18th
8 Mar 2014 – 9 Mar 2014
Activity: Participation in Academic conference (Chair)
Projects
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How cognates affect codeswitching: study of Welsh-English bilinguals
01/03/2011 – 28/05/2012 (Finished)
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Bilingualism in three contrasting European communities
01/08/2010 – 31/10/2012 (Finished)
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Santander Scholarship donation
01/10/2009 – 01/08/2022 (Finished)
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01/01/2009 – 14/07/2010 (Finished)
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One brain, two languages: Bridging neuroscience and Linguistics
01/09/2008 – 01/08/2022 (Finished)
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01/09/2008 – 20/05/2010 (Finished)
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01/01/2008 – 31/12/2010 (Finished)
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01/01/2007 – 31/08/2008 (Finished)
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01/10/2006 – 10/12/2012 (Finished)
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Esf-Phs 04/06 - North Wales Family Med
04/10/2004 – 03/10/2007 (Finished)