Frances Knight is Emeritus Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Nottingham. She is a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales and was President of the Ecclesiastical History Society in 2021-22. She taught at the University of Wales, Lampeter, and then the University of Nottingham for many years. She publishes mainly in the areas of the history of the Church of England from the late-eighteenth century to the present and the interactions between religion and culture in Britain in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.