Institute of Continuing Education (ICE)
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Dr Jonathan Rodell studied History at Pembroke College, Cambridge and received his doctorate for a thesis on popular religion in the18th and 19th centuries. In 2012 he was a visiting fellow at Southern Methodist University, Dallas. The focus of his work is on grassroots history and the impact of religious ideas upon the lives of ordinary people. He is the author of several articles and of 'The Rise of Methodism: a study of Bedfordshire 1736-1851' (BHRS, 2014).
Dr Rodell is currently working on four projects:
A volume on the history of English Calvinistic Methodism
An article on the poet John Clare's involment in Methodism
An article on the Society of Dependents, a nineteenth-century Sussex sect
A collaborative article on the Mormon pioneer turned Baptist bishop Henry Augustus Squire
