Eilish Gregory

Dr Eilish Gregory is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Centre for Catholic Studies at Durham University. Her research focuses primarily on religion, politics and culture in early modern British history. Eilish has held Associate Lectureship posts in history at the Open University, Anglia Ruskin University, and the University of Reading, a tutor for the Oxford Department for Continuing Education, and she was the Postdoctoral Research Associate for the Royal Historical Society. Recently, she was the Little Company of Mary Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Centre for Catholic Studies at Durham University. She has published extensively in early modern history on topics ranging from Catholic sequestrations and the religious and political agency of Catherine of Braganza in Restoration. She has published in journals including The Seventeenth Century, Parliamentary History Journal, and English Historical Review, and she has contributed to edited collections published by Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan, and Brill Press. Her first monograph Catholics during the English Revolution, 1642-1660: Politics, Sequestration and Loyalty was published by Boydell & Brewer Press in 2021, and in January 2024, her co-edited collection with Professor Michael Questier Later Stuart Queens, 1660-1735: Religion, Political Culture, and Patronage, was published by Palgrave Macmillan.