Justin Champion
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Justin Champion is a British academic who is currently head of the department of history at Royal Holloway, University of London (RHUL).
Professor Champion is a strong proponent of public history. He has presented or appeared in several TV and radio shows about British history, including the Channel 4 drama documentary The Great Plague in 2001, and the ITV documentary series Kings and Queens in 2003.
Champion has a PhD from Cambridge University. His research and teaching interests include the history of early modern ideas, blasphemy and irreligion in early modern Europe, Thomas Hobbes, Biblical criticism, urban disease, the history of reading and scholarship, and the use of information technology in the study of history.
[edit] Selected publications
Republican Learning. John Toland and the crisis of Christian culture, 1696-1722 (Manchester University Press, 2003)
(ed.) John Toland Nazarenus 1718 (Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1999)
‘Bibliography and Irreligion: Richard Smith’s ‘Observations’ The Seventeenth Century X (1995)
‘John Toland: The Politics of Pantheism’ Revue de Synthèse 4 ser (1995).
‘Relational Databases and the Great Plague’ in History and Computing (1993)
‘Legislators, Impostors and the Politic Origins of Religion: English Theories of Imposture from Stubbe to Toland’ in RH Popkin, S Berti (eds.) Heterodoxy, Spinozism and Freethought (Klewer, 1996)
‘Europe’s Enlightenment and National Historiographies’ Europa (1993)
London’s Dreaded Visitation: The Social Geography of the Great Plague 1665 (London: Historical Geography Research Monograph No. 31, 1995)
(ed.)Epidemic Diseases in London (London, 1993)
The Pillars of Priestcraft Shaken: The Church of England and its Enemies 1660–1730 (Cambridge, 1992)
