Understanding Brexit: The Rise of English and Scottish Nationalism
Regardless of one’s political leanings, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK) is undergoing a constitutional crisis. Yet, if we were to find a common denominator amongst all the political upsets that have occurred this decade, from the 2014...

Election Week in DC
Election week in Washington, D.C.: The Independence Project participated in a panel at the North American Conference on British Studies ‘Independency and the English Revolution’. Many thanks to David Como for organizing the panel, Sears McGee for chairing...
Brexit in Context
Britain is still reeling from its shocking decision to exit the European Union. Global markets are struggling to adjust to the new uncertain geo-political landscape. Spectators across the world are watching and waiting. Will Britain’s decision to jump ship inspire...
Prequel to the Independence edition under contract
The prequel to Pre-Revolutionary Puritanism in Early Stuart England is now under contract with Oxford University Press. The Reformed Government will document one of the most extensive puritan responses to Richard Hooker’s Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, one of...
Independence in Press!
The project’s editorial team just completed a critical edition of manuscripts documenting the earliest debates over ‘independence’ in the English speaking world. This edition, Pre-Revolutionary Puritanism in Early Stuart England, which is now in...
Independence and Religious Tolerance?
What did the idea of independence have to do with the expansion of religious toleration in the West? See the project director’s article ‘Religious Toleration and Ecclesiastical Independence’ which just appeared in the journal Church History....