Professor Richard C Allen

Richard C. Allen is a Welsh and Transatlantic Historian. He holds visiting fellowships at the Australian National University, Canberra, and at Newcastle University. He is a former Fulbright Professor and also a former Reader in Early Modern History. He has published extensively on radical dissent, migration, and identity. His most recent works are Quaker Communities in Early Modern Wales: From Radicalism to Respectability (2007), and the co-edited Irelands of the Mind (2008); Faith of Our...See more

Richard C. Allen is a Welsh and Transatlantic Historian. He holds visiting fellowships at the Australian National University, Canberra, and at Newcastle University. He is a former Fulbright Professor and also a former Reader in Early Modern History. He has published extensively on radical dissent, migration, and identity. His most recent works are Quaker Communities in Early Modern Wales: From Radicalism to Respectability (2007), and the co-edited Irelands of the Mind (2008); Faith of Our Fathers: Popular Culture and Belief in Post-Reformation England, Ireland and Wales (2009); The Religious History of Wales: A Survey of Religious Life and Practice from the Seventeenth Century to the Present Day (2013), and with Rosemary Moore and Specialist Contributors, The Quakers, 1656-1723: The Evolution of an Alternative Community (2018). He is currently writing Welsh Quaker Emigrants and Colonial Pennsylvania , and co-authoring, with Erin Bell, Quaker Networks and Moral Reform in the North East of England . See less