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Biography
Prof. Sarah Bastow is a specialist in early modern history working on religious change in the sixteenth century. She has published on a range of topics including recusant and conformist history; gender and religion and socio-religious conflict.
She is the Associate Dean for Teaching and Learning for the School of Arts and Humanities.
She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and the Royal Historical Society and has a PGCE in post compulsory education.
She teaches on various modules at undergraduate levels and supervises post graduate students.
Research Expertise and Interests
- Catholic history
- Reformation
- gender history
- Edwin Sandys
- Recusancy
- Early Modern History
- Northern History
- Elizabethan
- Tudor
- religious history of early modern era
- Catholic women
- Early modern rebellion
- Pilgrimage of Grace
- 1569 Rebellion
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
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Book review: T.A. Birrell, Aspects of Recusant History, eds. Jos Blom, Frans Korsten, Frans Blom, Abingdon, Routledge, 2021, pp. xiii, 236, ISBN, ISBN 9780367364434
Bastow, S., 1 May 2022, In: British Catholic History. 36, 1, p. 108-110 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Dance Article review
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Book Review: Confessional Mobility and English Catholics in Counter-Reformation Europe
Bastow, S., 1 Aug 2020, In: Cultural and Social History. 17, 2, p. 264-266 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Dance Article review
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Edwin Sandys and the Reform of English Religion
Bastow, S. L., 29 Aug 2019, 1 ed. New York & Abingdon: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 224 p. (Routledge Research in Early Modern History)Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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Defending the Faith: John Jewel and the Elizabethan Church
Ranson, A. (Editor), Gazal, A. (Editor) & Bastow, S. (Editor), Nov 2018, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press. 352 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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Edwin Sandys and the Defence of the Faith
Bastow, S., Nov 2018, Defending the Faith: John Jewel and the Church of England. Ranson, A., Gazal, A. & Bastow, S. (eds.). Penn State University Press, p. 224-241 17 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Conceptualising and Condemning the North in the Sixteenth Century
Bastow, S. (Speaker)
8 Sept 2021Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Chair of panel: Post Reformation English Piety
Bastow, S. (Speaker)
8 Sept 2021Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Heroic narratives in the Age of Reformation
Bastow, S. (Speaker)
30 Aug 2018 → 1 Sept 2018Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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The Material Culture of Religious Change and Continuity - 1400-1600
Bastow, S. (Organiser) & Lewis, K. (Organiser)
11 Apr 2017 → 12 Apr 2017Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organising a conference, workshop, ...
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Catholic Male Piety in Post-Reformation England
Bastow, S. (Speaker)
14 Sept 2016Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
Press/Media
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The Rebellious Tongues of the North: The Matter of the North Episode 4 of 10
4/08/18
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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