George Gross

Dr George Gross was educated at King’s College London, studying Theology and specialising (in a final-year dissertation supervised by Dr David Crankshaw) in Tudor Coronations. This was followed by a Masters in Early Modern History, focussing on early Stuart Coronations, at the University of Cambridge (Sidney Sussex). He completed a doctorate on later Stuart, Orange and Hanoverian coronations at King’s College London – also under Dr Crankshaw – with the title ‘‘The Lord’s Anointed’: British Coronations in Religious, Political and Social Contexts, c.1661–c.1714’, in April 2017.

Dr Gross lectures and examines for modules on Reformation history, British Christianity from the Restoration to the twenty-first century, and early modern religious/political thought. He is a co-convener at ‘The Religious History of Britain, 1500–1800’ seminar held at the Institute of Historical Research in London, where he presented a paper in 2014. Other papers have been delivered and discussed at a symposium held at Westminster Abbey (which he co-organized) in 2015; a University College London British Academy seminar in 2016; a Constitution Unit School of Public Policy Seminar discussion (2017); and at the Kent British Churches Conference (2017) in collaboration with Canterbury Christ Church University. He has been an historical consultant for the BBC on food history for the Mary Berry series ‘Secrets from Britain’s Great Houses’ (2017) and Channel 4’s Britain’s ‘Most Historic Towns’ (2020).

Publications include a co-edited book Reformation Reputations (2020) on the power of the individual and articles in Russian journals on Coronation perceptions and the Anglo-Russian communications between Ivan IV and Elizabeth I. A co-authored book British Coronations and the Shaping of National Identity, c.973-1953 is forthcoming, as well as an article on Charles I’s 1651 Coronation in Scotland in The Court Historian.