David Nash
David Nash is a professor of history, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHist.S) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), with expertise in the history of blasphemy and freethought. He’s taught at the universities of York, Leicester, and Oxford Brookes, with a focus on 19th century social, cultural, and religious history, and the history of law, crime, and deviance.
David’s publications include Blasphemy in Modern Britain 1789-present (1999), Blasphemy in the Christian World (2007), Acts Against God (2020), and The Humanist Movement in Modern Britain: A History of Ethicists, Rationalists and Humanists, with Callum Brown and Charlie Nash (2022).
In connection with his work on blasphemy, Nash has advised the British and Irish governments, as well as the European Commission and the United Nations.