About Me

Matt Phillpott
I am a recently qualified historian focused on intellectual history of the sixteenth century (particularly focused on Britain). My main research interests include the English reformation, the history of the book, and early modern scholarly networks.

My doctoral research was focused on identifying and examining the manuscript and printed sources used by John Foxe to compile the pre-reformation history in his Acts and Monuments. It particularly focused on the idea that a series of collaborative networks were behind the compilation of the Acts and Monuments and that Archbishop Matthew Parker provided many of the historical manuscripts, which Foxe used to revise the English past into a ‘Protestant’ shape for use in the Elizabethan reform of the church.

In addition to my personal research I am the Project Officer for the IHR Digital Seminar and Research Training Project, History SPOT which will place research course materials alongside podcasts of IHR research seminars in an online virtual environment. Before joining the IHR, I completed my PhD at the University of Sheffield in 2009, and worked as a researcher for the digital John Foxe Project and as an assistant for the HumBox repository at the Humanities Research Institute. I have also taught on several undergraduate courses at Sheffield’s Department of History on medieval and early modern topics.



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