Nigel Aston
Research Associate

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Biography

Nigel Aston is Reader Emeritus in Early Modern History and Honorary Fellow in the School of History, Politics, and International Relations at the University of Leicester where he taught until 2019. He has received numerous funding awards and held many research posts, most recently as a residential Research Fellow at Durham University in 2019-20.

Educated at Durham University and Christ Church, Oxford, Aston has written and published widely on British and French religious, political, and intellectual history in the ‘long’ eighteenth-century. His most recent publication was Negotiating Toleration: Dissent and the Hanoverian Succession 1714-1760 (OUP, 2019), co-edited with Benjamin Bankhurst. His next book Enlightened Oxford: the University in the cultural and political life of Britain and beyond, 1680-1820 is forthcoming in winter 2022-23 from Oxford University Press.

He is currently completing the editing of the Yale Boswell Editions The correspondence of James Boswell with the Rev. W.J. Temple, Vol. 2: 1777-1796, and has recently commenced work on a newfive-year project provisionally entitled Cathedrals in society: cultural, political, and religious interactions in northern England, c1660-1800.