Books
- Christianity behind the Iron Curtain. Yale University Press, in progress.
- Československo: Stát, který zklamal, by Mary Heimannová. Petrkov, 2020.
- Czechoslovakia: The State that Failed. Yale University Press, 2009; 2010; paperback 2011.
- Catholic Devotion in Victorian England. Oxford University Press, 1995.
Articles, Chapters, Sections
- ‘Christian Outlaws: Bible-smuggling across Cold War Europe’, Studies in Church History 61 (Cambridge University Press, 2025), in press.
- (with Cara Delay), ‘Saints and Devotional Cultures‘, in A. Harris, ed., Oxford History of British and Irish Catholicism vol. 5. Oxford University Press, 2023.
- ‘Evangelicals and the Communist Regimes in Postwar East-Central Europe‘, in D. Bebbington, ed., The Gospel and Religious Freedom: Historical Studies. Baylor University Press, 2023.
- ‘Victorian Piety and the Revival of Material Religion in Britain’ in Material Reform: The Impact of Reform and Modernity on Material Religion in North-West Europe, 1780-1920, ed. Peter Jan Margry. Leuven University Press, 2022.
- ‘Czechoslovakia, Czecho-Slovakia and the Munich Crisis‘, in J. Gottlieb, D. Hucker and R. Toye, eds., The Munich Crisis: Politics and the People. Manchester University Press, 2021.
- ‘The Mindszenty Affair and the U.S. Embassy in Budapest’, in R. Pastor-Castro and M. Thomas, eds., Embassies in Crisis: Studies of Diplomatic Missions in Testing Situations. Routledge, 2020.
- (with Gábor Szegedi), ‘Czechoslovak and Hungarian responses to Humane Vitae’, in A. Harris and D. Wannes, eds., Europe’s Spiritual ’68. Palgrave, 2018.
- ‘Medical and Mystical Opinion in Modern English Catholicism: The Contentious Case of Teresa Higginson’, in Tine Van Oesslaer, ed., Sign or Symptom? Exceptional Corporeal Phenomena in Medicine and Religion. KADOC, Leuven University Press, 2017; distributed by Cornell University Press.
- ‘The Secularisation of St Francis’, British Catholic History 33. Cambridge University Press, 2017.
- ‘Czechoslovakia’s Peaceful Division’. NATO Partnership for Peace Consortium of Defence Academies and Security Studies Institutes; Federal Ministry of Defence and Sports, Republic of Austria, 2015.
- ‘Mysticism in Bootle: Victorian Supernaturalism as An Historical Problem’, Journal of Ecclesiastical History. Cambridge University Press, 2013.
- ‘Christian Piety in Britain during the ‘Long’ Nineteenth Century, 1780-1920’, Piety and Modernity: The Dynamics of Religious Reform in Church, State and Society in Northern Europe, c. 1780-c.1920, ed. A. Jarlert. Leuven University Press, 2012; Cornell University Press.
- ‘Czechoslovakia between the Wars’, History Review. December, 2010.
- ‘The Scheming Apparatchik of the Prague Spring, Europe-Asia Studies (formerly Soviet Studies), 60, 10 (December 2008), 1717-1734. Republished in L. Cashman, ed., 1948 and 1968: Dramatic Milestones in Czech and Slovak History. Routledge, 2009; paperback 2013.
- ‘Catholic Revivalism in Worship and Devotion’ (worldwide) in S. Gilley and B. Stanley, eds., The Cambridge History of Christianity, vol. 8. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
- ‘English Catholic Particularism in Piety and Politics’, in The Black International/L’Internationale noire, ed. E. Lamberts. Leuven University Press, 2002.
- ‘St Francis and Modern English Sentiment’, in Christianity and Community in the West 1300-1900 (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History), ed. S. Ditchfield. Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2001.
- ‘Christianity in Western Europe from the Enlightenment’ in A World History of Christianity, ed. A. Hastings. Cassell Group, 1999; paperback 1999. This section (30,000 words) was chosen as the subject of a panel discussion by the book programme ‘Off the Shelf’ broadcast on RTE (Irish state radio) in 2000. It was republished as a chapter in Noel Davies and Martin Conway, eds., World Christianity in the 20th Century: SCM Reader (2008). Chinese version published in 2011.
- ‘Devotional Stereotypes in English Catholicism’ in F. Tallett and N. Atkin eds., Catholicism in Britain and France since 1789. Hambledon Press, 1996.
Biographical Articles
- ‘Michael Bourdeaux (1934-2021)‘, Anglican priest and founder of Keston College, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, in progress.
- ‘Herbert Thurston (1856-1939), Jesuit Scholar’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004.
- ‘Teresa Higginson (1844-1905)’, alleged mystic, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004.
- ‘Mary Ann Girling (1827-1886)’, stigmatic and founder of religious cult, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004.
- ‘Sir William Bovill (1796-1841)’, judge in the Tichborne case, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004.
- ‘John Le Brun (d. 1865)’, missionary in Madagascar, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004.
- ‘David Jones (1796-1841)’, missionary in Madagascar, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004.
- ‘Charles Aylmer (1786-1847)’, Jesuit, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004.
Book Reviews
- Cold War Mary, ed. Peter Jan Margry. English Historical Review 137 (2022).
- How the Vatican Became a World Player. A Twentieth-Century Crusade, by G. Chamedes. Diplomatic History (2021).
- Velvet Revolutions: An Oral History, by M. Vaněk and P. Mücke. English Historical Review (2018).
- The Czecho-Slovak Struggle for Independence, by B. Mueggenberg. Austrian History Yearbook (2017).
- Revolution with a Human Face, by J. Krapfl, Canadian Journal of History/Annales d’histoire canadiennes (2016).
- Ageing, Ritual and Social Change, ed. P. Coleman et al. Social History (2015).
- Priest, Politician, Collaborator: Jozef Tiso and the Making of Fascist Slovakia. English Historical Review (2015).
- The Pious Sex: Catholic Constructions of Masculinity and Femininity in Belgium, by T. van Osselaer. Innes Review (2014).
- Czechs, Slovaks and the Jews, 1938-1948, by J. Láníček. History (2014).
