Edward Royle (born 29 March 1944) is a British academic who is Emeritus Professor of History at the

University of York The University of York (abbreviated as or ''York'' for Post-nominal letters, post-nominals) is a public Collegiate university, collegiate research university in York, England. Established in 1963, the university has expanded to more than thir ...

and author of several books on the history of religious ideas, particularly in

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and

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Career

Royle gained his PhD at the

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. He spent the majority of his career in the Department of History at the

, 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

and

since the mid-eighteenth century. Professor Royle is a local

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Preacher.biographical note from University of York History Department
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Works

* * *(as editor) * *(with James Walvin) * * * * * * * * *(editor, with Ruth M. Larsen)

References

1944 births Living people British historians Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge British Methodists Fellows of Selwyn College, Cambridge Historians of the University of York People from Huddersfield {{UK-historian-stub