Emily Baylor

Thesis title: The Hydra: Social Purity in Britain, 1870-1914

Qualifications

MTh in History of Christianity (Distinction)

University of Edinburgh

BA (Hons) Medieval Studies and Theology

Georgetown University

Research summary

Christian social and political activism, sexual reform, nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Knowledge exchange

Victorian and Edwardian Britain, Christianity and sexuality, political reform

Current project grants

School of Divinity Scholarship Award from the University of Edinburgh

Papers delivered

"Bishops, Brothels, and Byron: Hypocrisy and the Failure of the 1844 Brothel Suppression Bill" (Ecclesiastical History Society Winter Conference 2023)