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Professor Andrew Chandler

Professor in Modern History

Andrew Chandler

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Andrew Chandler is Professor of Modern History here at the University of Chichester, where he oversees the History and Politics programme. He studied at the Universities of Birmingham and Cambridge before lecturing at the Universities of Birmingham and Keele. He has also been a Visiting Lecturer at the University of British Columbia. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Andrew Chandler’s interests explore the interrelationships between politics, religion, society and culture across the twentieth century. His work shows a particular commitment to Britain and Continental Europe and also to the exploration of international links between the Christian churches worldwide. His 2005 history of the Church Commissioners, 1948-1998, broke new ground in integrating the themes of religion, society, international investments and conservation. With the American historian, David Hein, he published in 2012 a biographical study of Archbishop Fisher while in 2013 he co-edited with the Danish historian Charlotte Hansen an edition of confidential reports sent to the Archbishop of Canterbury from the Second Vatican Council in Rome, 1961-4. His biographical study, George Bell, Bishop of Chichester, 1929-1958: Church, State and Resistance in the Age of Dictatorship, was published in the United States by Eerdmans in 2016; a further book, British Christians and the Third Reich: Church, State and the Judgement of Nations, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2022. He has contributed to a succession of international volumes, including the Cambridge History of Christianity and a History of Global Christianity for the publisher EJ Brill. With the German historian Gerhard Ringshausen he has also published two volumes of the letters of George Bell for Bloomsbury. He is currently working with David Ceri Jones on War, Peace and the British Free Churches, 1900-1945, with Sarah Edwards on a new biographical dictionary of women in British Christianity, 1890-1960, and on a third volume of the George Bell Series. presenting Bell’s contributions to the House of Lords, 1938-1958.

Committed to interdisciplinary and ecumenical collaboration, Andrew Chandler has organized a succession of conferences in the United Kingdom and abroad. He has also been responsible for a number of international public commemorations which have blended historical, religious and political dimensions. Today he remains particularly interested in creative collaborations which integrate the work of universities, public institutions and religious foundations. He is a member of the editorial board of the journal Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte/ Contemporary Church History and a founder member of the North American-based Contemporary Church History Quarterly. He contributes regularly to a number of journals and has served on various councils, boards and panels.
Andrew Chandler teaches undergraduate courses in modern British, European and American history. He also supervises post-graduate students in nineteenth- and twentieth-century British political, social and religious history.

Key Publications

The Church of England in the Twentieth Century: The Church Commissioners and the Politics of Reform, 1948-1998 (Boydell, 2005).

Archbishop Fisher: Church, State and World, 1945-1964 (with David Hein) (Ashgate, 2012)

Observing Vatican II: The Confidential Reports of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Representative, Bernard Pawley 1961-1964 (with Charlotte Hansen) (Cambridge University Press, 2014)

Evangelicalism, Piety and Politics: The Selected Writings of W.R. Ward (Ashgate, 2014)

Piety and Provocation: The Life and World of George Bell (forthcoming: Eerdmans, 2016)

PhD Supervision

Andrew is delighted to support post-graduate students in modern British political and religious history.

Research Output

Articles

Chandler, A. (2024) A People’s Church: A History of the Church of England, written by Jeremy Morris. Ecclesiology, 20 (2). pp. 225-229. ISSN 1745-5316 10.1163/17455316-20020004

Chandler, A. (2019) Catholicity: Anglicanism, history and the universal church in 1947. International Journal for the Study of the Christian Church, 18 (2-3). pp. 236-251. ISSN 1747-0234 10.1080/1474225x.2018.1501641

Book Sections

Chandler, A. (2018) Christianity in Europe and North America between the World Wars, 1918-c.1939. In: A History of Global Christianity. Brill, Leiden/Boston, pp. 19-40. ISBN 9789004352810 10.1163/2589-5656

Chandler, A. (2018) Christianity in Europe and North America in the Age of the Cold War. In: A History of Global Christianity. Brill, Leiden/Boston, pp. 99-124. ISBN 9789004352810 10.1163/2589-5656

Chandler, A. (2011) Christian responsibility and the preservation of civilisation in wartime: George Bell and the fate of Germany in World War II. In: Cultural Heritage, Ethics, and the Military. Heritage Matters . Boydell & Brewer, Suffolk. ISBN 9781843835387

Chandler, A. (2007) Patronage des Widerstandes: Bischof Bell und das "andere Deutschland" wahrend des Zweiten Weltkrieges. In: Die Okumene und der Widerstand gegen Diktaturen. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart, Germany, pp. 47-70. ISBN 978-3-1701-9966-8

Chandler, A. (2007) The march to the establishment: British nonconformity enters the twentieth century. In: Glaube-Freiheit-Diktatur in Europe und den USA: Festschrift für Gerhard Besier zum 60. Geburtstag. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Gottingen, pp. 245-256. ISBN 978-3-5253-5089-8

Chandler, A. (2006) Catholicism and Protestantism in the Second World War in Europe. In: World Christianities c.1914 - c.2000. The Cambridge History of Christianity, 9 . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp. 262-284. ISBN 0521815002

Monographs

Chandler, A. and Ringshausen, G. (2019) In the Long Shadow of the Third Reich: The George Bell-Gerhard Leibholz Correspondence,1938-1958. Documentation. Bloomsbury, London.

Chandler, A. (2016) George Bell, Bishop of Chichester: Church, State and Resistance in the Age of Dictatorship. Other. Wm B. Eerdmans, Michigan, USA.

Chandler, A. (2013) The latter glory of this house: Two Christian commonwealths in Britain, 1828-1980. Other. Darton, Longman & Todd, London.

Books

Chandler, A. and Hansen, C. (2013) Observing Vatican II: The confidential reports of the Archbishop of Canterbury's Representative, Bernard Pawley, 1961-5. Fifth Series, 43 . Cambridge University Press: Royal Historical Society, Cambridge.

Chandler, A. and Hein, D. (2012) Archbishop Fisher, 1945-1961: Church, State and World. The Archbishops of Canterbury Series . Ashgate, Farnham, Surrey. ISBN 9781409412338

Chandler, A. (2012) The Church and Humanity: The Life and Work of George Bell, 1883–1958. Ashgate, Surrey. ISBN 9781409425564

Barsham, D., Brighton, T., Carter, J., Chandler, A., Everard, B., Hutchings, B., Kinsley, Z., Rounce, A., Salkeld, D., Sambrook, J. and Wyatt, J. (2009) William Collins poet, 1721-59. Otter Memorial Papers, 26 . University of Chichester, Chichester, West Sussex. ISBN 9780948765629

Chandler, A. (2006) The Church of England in the Twentieth Century: The Church Commissioners and the Politics of Reform, 1948-1998. Boydell Press, Woodridge, UK. ISBN 9781843831655

Baily, U., Barrett, P., Carey, A., Chandler, A., Devonshire Jones, T., Everard, B., Graf, P., Huneke, M., Joice, M., Kemp, E., Lerbs, H., Lloyd, T., McKee-Lerbs, C., Manktelow, M., Mason, L., Moorman, J., Porter, R., Radcliffe, J., Robbins, K., Smith, T., Walker, P. K., Watson, G., Wilkinson, P. and de Witt, A. (2004) Bell of Chichester (1883-1958): a prophetic Bishop. Otter Memorial Papers, 17 . University College Chichester, Chichester, West Sussex. ISBN 0948765844

Other department members

Dr Alison Green Chaplain
Alison Green
Associate Lecturer in Theology
Alison MacLeod
Visiting Professor in Creative Writing
Alwyn Turner
Alwyn Turner
Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Literary History

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