Clive Field

Clive Field, OBE, is Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the School of History and Cultures of the University of Birmingham, UK, and a former Director of Scholarship and Collections at The British Library. He has researched and published extensively on the social history of religion in Britain from the eighteenth century to the present day, and is a particular authority on the history of religious statistics and of Methodism. His most recent books are Britain's Last Religious Revival?...See more

Clive Field, OBE, is Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the School of History and Cultures of the University of Birmingham, UK, and a former Director of Scholarship and Collections at The British Library. He has researched and published extensively on the social history of religion in Britain from the eighteenth century to the present day, and is a particular authority on the history of religious statistics and of Methodism. His most recent books are Britain's Last Religious Revival? Quantifying Belonging, Behaving, and Believing in the Long 1950s (2015); Secularization in the Long 1960s: Numerating Religion in Britain (2017); and Periodizing Secularization: Religious Allegiance and Attendance in Britain, 1880-1945 (2019). He is co-director of the British Religion in Numbers website, a British Academy Research Project. See less