http://www.theclergydatabase.org.uk/2009-01-30We are pleased to announce the re-launch of the Clergy of the Church of England Database. It features a new interface, a new search engine, and a new format for the display of records, described as 'Career Narratives'. We welcome feedback on the new design. Please e-mail m.e.clayton[at]reading.ac.uk with any comments that you may have.2008-10-20We are pleased to announce the appearance of a new article in the CCEd Online Journal. It examines the role of George Pretyman, bishop of Lincoln, as church appointments adviser, and the complexities of ecclesiastical patronage during the first administration of William Pitt the Younger. The criteria for patronage are illustrated using three case studies from the University of Cambridge, an institution which emerges as a key concern in the patronage networks of Pitt and the bishop. To view the article, please go to:http://journal.ccedb.org.uk/articles/index.html2008-08-20We are pleased to announce the appearance of a new 'Note & Query' in the CCEd Online Journal. Dr Richard Palmer, the Librarian and Archivist of Lambeth Palace Library, has contributed an article exploring the life and career of James Mayne. Mayne was the early nineteenth-century curate of Bethnal Green who was featured in the BBC's 'Who Do You Think You Are' programme about Patsy Kensit, broadcast on 13 August 2008. To view the article, please go to:http://journal.ccedb.org.uk/notes/index.html2008-08-12On Wednesday 13 August BBC's 'Who Do You Think You Are' features Patsy Kensit exploring her family tree. The CCEd, represented by Arthur Burns, played a part in the making of this programme, and we are pleased to announce that an article will shortly appear in the CCEd Online Journal about 'James Mayne, Curate of Bethnal Green', who was one of Patsy Kensit's ancestors. The article has been written by Dr Richard Palmer, the Librarian and Archivist of Lambeth Palace Library.2008-08-12A major upgrade of the website is planned for the autumn. The Database will be relaunched with a re-designed user interface and a new search engine. At this point we expect that the Database will include 100,000 individuals.2008-08-12Users of the Database may be interested to know that this week's Church Times -- the issue for 8 August 2008 -- includes an article about the Project entitled 'History BC -- Before Crockford'.2008-05-16On Friday 20 and Saturday 21 June 2008 the CCEd Project will host a conference entitled 'Anglican Clergy 1540-1835: charting the dynamics of an early modern profession in the Clergy of the Church of England Database'. It will take place at the Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Malet Street, London. The first day is aimed primarily at academics and is entitled 'Clerical cohorts: prosopographical insights'. It will explore the potential of CCEd for writing the collective history of the clergy through a variety of case studies. The second day is aimed primarily at genealogists and local historians and is entitled 'Clerical ancestors and local stories'. It will discuss the value of the Database for archivists, local historians and genealogists, exploring the ways in which CCEd serves these constituencies, as well as highlighting some traps for the unwary in researching the history of historic clergy. All are welcome to attend on either day or both, though we hope that as many as possible will come on both days. Please contact m.e.clayton[@]reading.ac.uk or s.j.c.taylor[@]reading.ac.uk for further details. Alternatively, a draft programme in pdf format can be downloaded from the link below. There is no charge for attendance and lunch will be provided. We would be grateful if you would inform Mary Clayton (m.e.clayton[@]reading.ac.uk]) if you wish to attend, so that we can make the catering arrangements.http://www.theclergydatabase.org.uk/redist/pdf/conf_june_2008_prog_draft.pdf2008-05-18We are pleased to announce a further upgrade of the CCEd site. The database now includes records relating to more than 85,000 individuals.2007-11-20We are delighted to announce the addition to the website of the CCEd Online Journal. It currently includes articles by Bill Sheils and Richard Clark, and a note by Sarah Reveley. To view the journal, and for a full description of its aims and contents, please follow the link in the navigation bar on the right.2007-09-24Arthur Burns talked about Salisbury cathedral and the diocese in the late Hanoverian period, drawing on the materials available in CCEd, at a conference on ‘Salisbury Cathedral 750: 1258–2008’ on 28 March 2008.2007-09-24Arthur Burns gave a talk on the Clergy Database and its value for research on the clergy and church in the localities at the Norwich branch of the Historical Association on 9 February 2008.2007-11-20We are pleased to announce a further upgrade of the CCEd site. The database now includes records relating to more than 75,000 individuals.2007-09-24We are pleased to announce an upgrade of the CCEd site. Some significant additions have been made to the website, and the database now includes more than 70,000 person records. The launch of our journal, CCEd Research Online, and the addition of a frequently asked questions page are now scheduled for the end of October.2007-09-24Arthur Burns and Harold Short will deliver a presentation about the CCEd and the construction of on-line prosopographical databases at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, on 6 November 20072007-08-13The CCEd team very much regret that we have not been able to upgrade the site since December 2006. A full upgrade, which will include the addition of our on-line journal, a frequently asked questions page, and major additions to the web site, is now scheduled for the autumn. In the interim the Database is being upgraded, with the addition of a further 20,000 person records. Consequently, there are now some 70,000 person records available on the public Database.2007-08-13On Saturday 20 October 2007 a one day conference will be held under the auspices of the Chichester Centre for Ecclesiastical Studies in collaboration with CCEd. This will explore the progress of the Project, some of the uses to which its materials can be put, and its future. All are welcome and there is no charge for attendance. For further details please contact m.e.clayton[at]reading.ac.uk or a.foster[at]chi.ac.uk.2007-09-20Ken Fincham and Stephen Taylor delivered a paper on 'Clerical episcopalianism and conformity 1646–1660' at a conference on Social Networks in Early Modern England held at New College, Oxford, on 17–19 September 2008.2007-09-20Arthur Burns gave a talk on Fingringhoe, Essex, in aid of the Church Restoration fund, on ‘Fingringhoe and environs in the Clergy of the Church of England Database' on Saturday 7 July 2007.2006-12-14With the December upgrade, a major landmark has been reached: there are now over 50,000 person records available on the public Database. In addition, two major developments are worth highlighting: (1) linkage of the Canterbury records for the period 1540–1660 is now almost complete and includes a full list of locations for the diocese; and (2) linkage of records for the diocese of Chester for the period 1540–1660 is now almost complete, including a full list of locations for the diocese, with much new information relating to chapelries and schools. Full details of Database content can be found at:http://www.theclergydatabase.org.uk/content/upgrade/content.htmlAs part of the next upgrade, scheduled for February, we hope to enhance the website by adding a Frequently Asked Question page and a discussion forum.2006-12-14The Project apologizes for the fact that technical problems have delayed the launch of the on-line journal, ‘CCEd Research On-line’. The journal will now appear on the website early next year, and certainly by the end of May. The first article will be ‘The bishops and their dioceses: reform of visitation in the anglican church c.1680–c.1760’ by W. J. Sheils. Other submissions are also under consideration for publication in the first issue.2006-11-14On 27 October 2006 a conference took place on 'The northern diocese in the CCEd'. The event was attended by a large audience of academics and other historians. A brief report can be found by clicking on the link below, and we hope to include some of the papers in 'CCEd Research On-line' in due course.2006-11-14The October upgrade includes two major developments: (1) linkage of the Canterbury records for the period 1540–1660 is now almost complete and includes a full list of locations for the diocese; and (2) linkage of records for the diocese of Chester for the period 1540–1660 is now almost complete, including a full list of locations for the diocese, with much new information relating to chapelries and schools. Full details of Database content can be found at:http://www.theclergydatabase.org.uk/content/upgrade/content.html2006-10-23The Project is pleased to announce that a new addition to the website that will be launched over the coming months: ‘CCEd Research On-line’. The aim of this initiative is to provide a forum, an on-line journal, for the publication of notes and articles that either draw on the materials made available by CCEd or relate in some ways to the concerns of the Project. We are pleased to announce that the first article – W. J. Sheils on ‘The bishops and their dioceses: reform of visitation in the anglican church c.1680–c.1760’ – will appear as part of the October upgrade of the website. We regret that, however, that the list of diocesan chancellors, edited by Andrew Foster and John Hawkins, has been further delayed. The Project Directors, who will act as the editors of CCEd Research On-line, welcome the submission of articles, either short or long, from anyone interested in contributing to the discussion of the Church of England and its clergy in the period between the Reformation and the mid-nineteenth century. They are also happy to discuss ideas for articles with prospective authors. All contributions will be peer reviewed, and their publication will be announced on this News page at each upgrade of CCEd. Copyright will remain with the contributors.2006-10-23Users of the Database, particularly genealogists, may be interested in a new publication. Peter Towey’s ‘My Ancestor was an Anglican Clergyman’ provides a guide to researching ancestors who were Anglican clergymen. It includes an appendix on the Clergy of the Church of England Database. The pamphlet has been published by the Society of Genealogists Enterprises Limited (ISBN 1903462908). Details of this and other similar publications are available from the Society of Genealogists Enterprises Ltd., 14 Charterhouse Buildings, Goswell Road, London. EC1M 7BA, and online at:http://www.sog.org.uk2006-10-23The CCEd was upgraded on 23 October 2006. Since the last upgrade in August, linkage has continued for the following dioceses: (i) Bath and Wells for the period 1700–1800; (ii) Bristol for the period 1660–1750; (iii) Chester for the period 1760–1835; (iv) Ely for the periods 1540–1646 and 1760–1835; (v) Lichfield for the period 1660–1760; (vi) Lincoln for the period 1750–1835; (vii) Oxford for the period 1660–1835; (viii) Salisbury for the period 1660–1760. The website materials remain much the same as in August, except that some additions have been made to the location lists, particularly for the diocese of Chester. The next upgrade is scheduled to take place in December. Full details of Database content can be found at:http://www.theclergydatabase.org.uk/content/upgrade/content.html2006-08-14A conference sponsored by the CCEd project will take place in Manchester on Friday 27 October 2006. The title of the conference is ‘The “northern diocese” in the Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540–1835’. The conference will combine presentations from the Clergy Database team on their findings and papers by others researching the post-Reformation Church of England in the north, with the focus on the question of whether a distinctively ‘northern’ pattern emerges from such evidence. Dioceses under consideration will include Carlisle, Chester, Lichfield and Coventry, and Sodor and Man. The conference will take place in the Ground Floor Theatre, Simon Building, University of Manchester, Brunswick Street, off Oxford Road, Manchester. Registration is free. Please contact Janet Meredith (janet.meredith@manchester.ac.uk) if you would like to attend. Anyone who would like to offer a communication at the conference should contact Arthur Burns (arthur.burns@kcl.ac.uk).2006-08-14The following changes have been made since the last upgrade of the CCEd: (i) Diocese of Bath and Wells: linkage of data to person and location is continuing for the period 1700–1800; (ii) Diocese of Bristol: linkage of data has begun for the period 1660–1750; (iii) Diocese of Chester: linkage of data to person and location is continuing for the period 1760–1835; (iv) Diocese of Ely: linkage of data is continuing for the periods 1540–1646 and 1760–1835; (v) Diocese of Lichfield: linkage has been completed for the period 1540–1646; linkage has begun for the period 1660–1760; some additional data, particularly relating to peculiars, has been added for the period 1760–1835; (vi) Diocese of Lincoln: linkage of data has begun for the period 1750–1835; (vii) Diocese of Oxford: some further data for the period 1660–1835 has also been linked to people and locations; (viii) Diocese of Salisbury: some further data for the period 1660–1760 has been linked to people and locations. The next upgrade is planned to take place in early October. Full details of Database content can be found at:http://www.theclergydatabase.org.uk/content/upgrade/content.html2006-07-22‘Royalist Capital and Commonwealth Melting-Pot: Oxford in the 1640s and 1650s’, a conference held at St Anne's College, Oxford, on 21–3 July 2006: Stephen Taylor and Kenneth Fincham delivered a paper on ‘Bishop Robert Skinner and the survival of the Church of England’. Further details of the conference athttp://www.history.ox.ac.uk/events/royalist_call.htm2006-07-03Mary Clayton delivered a paper on ‘The Clergy of the Church of England Database: recent developments’, at the AGM of The Association for Manuscripts and Archives in Research Collections held in Hereford Cathedral on 3 July 2006.2006-03-16Arthur Burns and Stephen Taylor delivered a paper entitled, ‘Was Lichfield and Coventry a northern diocese?’, at the History of Religion Seminar, University of Birmingham, on Thursday 16 March 2006.2005-12-04The following changes have been made since the October upgrade of the CCEd: (i) Diocese of Oxford: some further data for the period 1660–1835 has also been linked to people and locations; some further documentation has been added; (ii) Diocese of Lichfield: some further linkage of data to people and locations has taken place for the periods 1540–1646; linkage has been completed for the period 1760–1835; some further documentation has been added; (iii) Diocese of Ely: linkage has been completed for the period 1660–1760; linkage of data is continuing for the periods 1540–1646 and 1760–1835; (iv) Diocese of Salisbury: some further data for the period 1660–1760 has been linked to people and locations; (v) Diocese of Chester: linkage of data has begun for the period 1760–1835; (vi) Diocese of Bath and Wells: linkage of data has begun for the period 1700–1800; some documentation has been added.2005-10-11The following changes have been made since the July upgrade of the CCEd: (i) Diocese of Oxford: some further data for the period 1660–1736 has also been linked to people and locations; linkage has begun for the period 1736–1835; (ii) Diocese of Lichfield: some further linkage of data to people and locations has taken place for the periods 1540–1646; linkage is now virtually complete for the period 1760–1835; (iii) Diocese of Ely: linkage is virtually complete for the period 1660–1760; linkage of data is continuing for the period 1540–1646 and has begun for the period 1760–1835; (iv) Diocese of Salisbury: some further data for the period 1660–1760 has been linked to people and locations; (v) Diocese of Chester: linkage of data has begun for the period 1760–1835.2005-07-16The following changes have been made since the June upgrade of the CCEd: (i) Diocese of Oxford: some further data for the period 1660–1736 has also been linked to people and locations; (ii) Diocese of Lichfield: some further linkage of data to people and locations has taken place for the periods 1540–1646 and 1760–1835; (iii) Diocese of Ely: some further data for the period 1660–1760 has been linked to people and locations; linkage of data has begun for the period 1540–1646; (iv) Diocese of Salisbury: some further data for the period 1660–1760 has been linked to people and locations; (v) Website: Lists of parishes in the jurisdiction of the bishops of Rochester, Carlisle, Oxford, Lichfield, Sodor and Man, Ely, and Salisbury have been added. Other, minor additions have also been made to some web pages; (vi) Website:A draft working paper by the CCEd team, entitled ‘In and Out of the Archives’, is now available. Click here to view ‘In and Out of the Archives’:http://www.theclergydatabase.org.uk/content/publications/in_and_out.html2005-07-16The Project is pleased to announce that a new addition to the website that will be launched over the coming months: ‘CCEd Research On-line’. The aim of this initiative is to provide a forum, an on-line journal, for the publication of notes and articles that either draw on the materials made available by CCEd or relate in some ways to the concerns of the Project. Among the first pieces planned for publication is a preliminary listing of all diocesan chancellors, a group of individuals only partially covered by the sources utilised in the making of CCEd, and a study of some of the peculiarities of the process of institution in the diocese of Chichester. The Project Directors, who will act as the editors of CCEd Research On-line, welcome the submission of articles, either short or long, from anyone interested in contributing to the discussion of the Church of England and its clergy in the period between the Reformation and the mid-nineteenth century. They are also happy to discuss ideas for articles with prospective authors. All contributions will be peer reviewed, and their publication will be announced on this News page at each upgrade of CCEd. Copyright will remain with the contributors.2005-07-15Stephen Taylor delivered a paper entitled, ‘Counting the clergy: the CCEd and the limitations of a prosopographical tool’, at the conference on ‘Prosopography: Approaches and Applications’, held at Jesus College, Oxford, 15–18 July 2005.2005-06-29Ken Fincham and Stephen Taylor gave a paper on ‘The survival and restoration of the Church of England 1646–1662: the evidence of episcopal ordinations in the Clergy of the Church of England Database’ at the seminar of the Early Modern Research Centre, at the University of Reading, on Wednesday 29 June 2005.2005-06-01The following changes have been made since the launch of the CCEd at the end of April: (i) Diocese of Chester: linkage has begun for the period 1660–1760; (ii) Diocese of Chester: linkage has begun for the period 1660–1760; (iii) Diocese of Oxford: some further data for the period 1660–1736 has also been linked to people and locations; (iv) Diocese of Lichfield: some data for the period 1760–1835 has been linked to people and locations; linkage to locations has begun for data for the period 1540–1646; (v) Diocese of Ely: some further data for the period 1660–1760 has been linked to people and locations; (vi) Diocese of Salisbury: some further data for the period 1660–1760 has been linked to people and locations; (vii) some corrections have been made to the web pages.2005-04-29The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540–1835 has moved to a new website address. If you have been using the pilot version of the website, please update your bookmark to point to the new address:http://www.theclergydatabase.org.uk2005-04-29The pilot version of the Database that has been available hitherto only contained data for the diocese of Rochester. With the public launch, further materials will be made available: (i) Diocese of Carlisle: data for the period 1761–1835, which has been linked to people and locations; supporting reference materials; (ii) Diocese of Sodor and Man: all available data, which has been linked to people and locations; supporting reference materials; (iii) Diocese of Oxford: data for the period 1540–1646, which has been linked to people and locations; some data for the period 1660–1736 has also been linked to people and locations; supporting reference materials; (iv) Diocese of Lichfield: some data for the period 1760–1835 has been linked to people and locations; supporting reference materials; (v) Diocese of Ely: some data for the period 1660–1760 has been linked to people and locations; (vi) Diocese of Salisbury: some data for the period 1660–1760 has been linked to people and locations.2005-03-31The public launch of the CCEd will take place in the Great Hall at Lambeth Palace on 29 April 2005. At this time the pilot version of the Database, containing data for the diocese of Rochester only, will be withdrawn, and it will be replaced with a new public website. Initially, this will make available materials for the dioceses of Rochester (1540–1835), Sodor and Man (1660–1835), Oxford (1540–1736), Carlisle (1761–1835), and Lichfield (1760–1835), along with a little material for the dioceses of Ely (1660–1760) and Salisbury (1660–1760). Reference materials will be available for Carlisle, Oxford, Rochester, and Sodor and Man. After 29 April 2005 the intention is that the website and Database will be updated regularly, every 1–2 months. Over the next few months further data will be added for Oxford, Lichfield, Ely and Salisbury, and it is planned that a start will be made on releasing data for a further diocese, probably Lincoln. At the same time enhancements will be made to the website.Each upgrade of the Database will be announced on the News page of the website, along with details of what new data has been added.2005-01-26Kenneth Fincham and Stephen Taylor gave a paper on, ‘The survival and restoration of the Church of England 1646–1662: the evidence of episcopal ordinations in the Clergy of the Church of England Database’, at the Early Modern History Seminar, held at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, on 26 January 2005.2004-12-31The CCEd has been awarded a further grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. This grant, commencing in March 2005 and running for three years, will fund the second stage of the Project. This will involve further processing of the data already collected in order to make it more accessible and comprehensible for users and also to facilitate complex statistical analysis.2004-12-02Stephen Taylor read a paper entitled, ‘Counting the clergy: the CCEd and the limitations of a prosopographical tool’, at the Approaches in Prosopography Seminar, at the Centre for Prosopography, University of Oxford, on 2 December 2004.2004-11-18Stephen Taylor read a paper on 'The geography of the Church of England in the early modern period and computers: the experience of the CCEd', as part of Session 188, 'Spatial Analysis of Religion', at the 29th Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association in Chicago, on 18 November 2004.2004-10-01Arthur Burns gave a paper entitled, ‘In and out of the archives: some reflections on the diocesan records of the Church of England since the Reformation’, at the Franco-British Conference, ‘Du papier à l'archive, du privé au public: France et Iles Britanniques, deux mémoires', held at the Institute of Historical Research, London, on 1 October 2004. View the text athttp://www.theclergydatabase.org.uk/content/publications/in_and_out.html2004-07-19Stephen Taylor gave a talk entitled, 'The Clergy of the Church of England Database: the conception of an on-line digital resource', at the colloquium, 'Resourcing Sources VIII: Creating Digital Resources for Historians',held at the University of Oxford on 19 July 2004.2004-07-10Arthur Burns delivered a talk on ‘The clergy of the diocese of Rochester from the Reformation to the Victorian period’ as part of ‘1400 Years of History. Rochester Cathedral and Diocese 604–2004’, a programme of events to celebrate aspects of the history of Rochester cathedral, the diocese of Rochester and West Kent,held on Saturday 10 July 2004.2004-06-17Kenneth Fincham gave a presentation on ‘The Clergy of the Church of England Database’ to the Annual Conference of the Cathedral Libraries and Archives Association on 17 June 2004.2004-02-11Kenneth Fincham gave a paper on ‘The Clergy of the Church of England Database Project’ at the Research Seminar, School of History, University of Kent at Canterbury, on 11 February 2004.2004-01-31Stephen Taylor read a paper on ‘Reconstructing clerical careers: the experience of the Clergy of the Church of England Database’, at the Colloque international, Recherche assistée par ordinateur, L'analyse des données, held at the Centre de recherches en études anglaises at the Université Paris X Nanterre, on 31 January 2004.2003-06-30Stephen Taylor gave a talk entitled, ‘Reconstructing clerical careers: the experience of the Clergy of the Church of England Database’, at the colloquium on Prosopography and Computers, Resourcing Sources VII: Digital History, held at the Oxford University Computing Service, on 30 June 2003.2003-06-20Arthur Burns and Stephen Taylor gave ta talk entitled, ‘Reconstructing clerical careers: the experience of the Clergy of the Church of England Database’, at the conference, ‘Bishop Burgess and his world’, held at the University of Wales, Lampeter, in June 2003.2001-04-20Arthur Burns and Stephen Taylor gave a presentation on ‘The CCEd and the public’ at the RHS Conference, ‘Historians and their Publics’, held at the University of York, on 20 April 2001.