The 'Warwick Network for Parish Research' has been established to facilitate the study of British and European parishes c. 1300-1800. It aims to support a wide range of works on religious, social, political and cultural aspects as well as interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives. This website contains a bibliography of sources and secondary literature as well as information on parish-related projects, conferences, debates, online materials and public engagement initiatives.

The Network is an informal association of researchers, with an institutional base at Warwick's Department of History, where several early modernists pursue interests in the field. It depends on the active collaboration of scholars with parish-related interests and welcomes information on relevant projects and resources to be listed here.

Site structure:

• Research projects at Warwick and elsewhere (short descriptions and contact details)
• The Warwick Symposium on Parish Research (an annual day conference on specific themes)
• Select bibliography on parish research (English and Non-English titles)
• Parish sources (in digital format)
• Parish-related news and events (including publications and conferences)
• Parish forum (for general discussion of parish-related issues)
• Parish links (to network partner, parish church / project websites)
• Parish texts (digital versions of essays and debates on parish history)
• Public engagement (exchanges between parish historians and the wider public)
• Writing parish history (some preliminary advice)
  

Thomas Newcombe's late seventeenth-century almshouses at Dunchurch in Warwickshire

[Photo: BK]

'The parish church has been at the centre of town and village life ... ever since the first wooden churches began to be built'

['Icons: A Portrait of England']

To provide or obtain further information please contact Beat Kümin (webmaster).

The (shortened) address for this webpage is http://go.warwick.ac.uk/parishnetwork.

Logo design, based on the portal of St Morwenna at Morwenstow (Bude/Cornwall): © Don White, 2011.

Co-ordinators
Beat Kümin (webmaster)
Peter Marshall
Penny Roberts

Partners
BALH
Christianity & Culture
Humanities Research Centre

Public FORUM 
for the discussion of parish research
(posting guidelines)

Click here for the annual 'Warwick Symposium on Parish Research'

Testimonials
'An exemplary site!'
(Web4Ren Forum, 2007)

'An important portal for current research on parishes and community culture' (Intute - Best Websites for Study and Research, 2010)