Dissent After Disruption

This new study is a vitally important historiographical intervention, providing as it does the first detailed account of Scottish Presbyterian dissent in the wake of the Disruption. [Ryan Mallon has] produced a landmark text that will hopefully prove foundational for future studies of late modern Scottish religious culture. – Neil McIntyre * Journal of Church and State *Mallon’s perceptive research makes Dissent After Disruption: Church and State in Scotland, 1843–63 a welcome addition to the historiography of the post-Disruption period and compulsory reading for anyone interested in the evolution of Presbyterians in Scotland. – David Dutton * Scottish Church History *This welcome addition to the historiography of post-Disruption Scotland by a young scholar has brought attention to bear on how the fissiparous history of Scottish Presbyterianism continued as much after the Disruption as it had in the century beforehand. Ryan Mallon does this in an important study of not just the Free Church, but also of the United Presbyterian Church (UPC). It is a correction to what is perhaps too often a binary history of nineteenth-century Scottish Presbyterianism into Established and Free Churches. – Rowan Strong * The Journal of Ecclesiastical History *There is much to be admired in Mallon’s study of Presbyterian dissent during the early years of Queen Victoria’s reign… the writing is stylistically superb, balancing detailed analysis with summative assessment and punctuated by enjoyably pithy turns of phrase. Historically, the work both significantly advances the field of Victorian Scottish religious history and powerfully shows how religious institutions and ideas interacted with and shaped all aspects of Scottish life. – Andrew Michael Jones, Reinhardt University * Victorian Studies *

Ryan Mallon completed his PhD at Queen’s University, Belfast in 2018 and is currently a Teaching Associate in the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy, and Politics at the university. His research focuses on religion, politics, and identity in Scotland and he has published articles on Scottish nationalism, education, anti-Catholicism, and radical politics.