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.

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'

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.

2021

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2020

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2017

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2015

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2013

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2012

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2011

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2010

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2009

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2008

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2007

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2005

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2019

• University of Tokyo, Komaba Campus

  Fellowship at the University of Tokyo: teaching graduate course, giving invited research lecture, running day workshop

  1 Hyd 2019 – 31 Hyd 2019

  Gweithgaredd: Ymweld â sefydliad academaidd allanol (Ymchwilydd Gwadd)
• 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 Gorff 2019 – 1 Awst 2019

  Gweithgaredd: Cymryd rhan mewn cynhadledd (Trefnydd)
• Cambridge Symposium of the work of Mark Goldie

  Day long workshop to discuss work and influence of the historian, Mark Goldie

  16 Gorff 2019

  Gweithgaredd: Cymryd rhan mewn gweithdy, seminar, cwrs (Siaradwr)

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 Maw 2018

  Gweithgaredd: Cymryd rhan mewn cynhadledd (Siaradwr)

2017

• Bangor Conference on the Restoration, Bangor UK

  Conference organiser

  25 Gorff 2017 – 29 Gorff 2017

  Gweithgaredd: Cymryd rhan mewn cynhadledd (Trefnydd)
• William III's impact in England: lecture at Het Loo Conference NL

  15 Mai 2017

  Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Anerchiad fel siaradwr gwadd (Siaradwr)

2016

• 1689: the revolution in time: talk at Cambridge day symposium

  27 Mai 2016

  Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Anerchiad fel siaradwr gwadd (Siaradwr)
• '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 Ion 2016

  Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Anerchiad fel siaradwr gwadd (Siaradwr)

2015

• Bangor Conference on the Restoration, Bangor UK

  28 Gorff 2015 – 30 Gorff 2015

  Gweithgaredd: Cymryd rhan mewn cynhadledd (Trefnydd)
• Concluding Remarks: Paris Conference on reputation of Louis XIV

  5 Meh 2015

  Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Anerchiad fel siaradwr gwadd (Siaradwr)

2014

• Time and the revolution of 1688/9: Reading Plenary Lecture

  Invited plenary address

  8 Gorff 2014

  Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Anerchiad fel siaradwr gwadd (Siaradwr)
• Tokyo University Research Seminar

  29 Ebr 2014

  Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Anerchiad fel siaradwr gwadd (Siaradwr)
• Kyoto University Research Seminar

  18 Ebr 2014

  Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Anerchiad fel siaradwr gwadd (Siaradwr)
• Fellowship at University of Toyko

  Research, teaching graduate class and giving research papers at the Komaba Campus of Tokyo University

  1 Ebr 2014 – 30 Ebr 2014

  Gweithgaredd: Mathau o waith ymgysylltu academaidd allanol - Ymchwilio a Dysgu mewn Sefydliad Allanol (Aelod)
• 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 Maw 2014 – 9 Maw 2014

  Gweithgaredd: Cymryd rhan mewn cynhadledd (Cadeirydd)

• How cognates affect codeswitching: study of Welsh-English bilinguals

  01/03/2011 – 28/05/2012 (Wedi gorffen)

• Bilingualism in three contrasting European communities

  01/08/2010 – 31/10/2012 (Wedi gorffen)

• Santander Scholarship donation

  01/10/2009 – 01/08/2019 (Wedi gorffen)

• Researcher Exchange Programme

  01/01/2009 – 14/07/2010 (Wedi gorffen)

• One brain, two languages: Bridging neuroscience and Linguistics

  01/09/2008 – 01/08/2019 (Wedi gorffen)

• Open-mouthed or stiff upper lip? Exploring Language-Specific Articulatory settings in English-German Bilinguals

  01/09/2008 – 20/05/2010 (Wedi gorffen)

• The British Sign Language (BSL) Corpus Project:Sociolinguistic Variation, Language Change, Language Contact and Lexical Frequency in BSL.

  01/01/2008 – 31/12/2010 (Wedi gorffen)

• 4TH ADELST CONFERENCE

  01/01/2007 – 31/08/2008 (Wedi gorffen)

• Epsrc Academic Fellowship

  01/10/2006 – 10/12/2012 (Wedi gorffen)

• Esf-Phs 04/06 - North Wales Family Med

  04/10/2004 – 03/10/2007 (Wedi gorffen)