Formerly professor of history in the University of London, and Leverhulme Research Professor 2015-2017, Michael Questier moved to a research chair at the University of Vanderbilt in 2018 and is now attached to the Centre for Catholic Studies at the University of Durham.

Singlehandedly and without funding, Questier rescues the martyrs and their martyrologists, especially Challoner, from marginalized oblivion. Building on the research of Anne Dillon, Brad Gregory, and others, the author "takes the topic out of its conventional hagiographic wrapper, or at least the one that is often assigned to it, and reroutes it via an archive led process of reconstruction of the origins of the relevant documents in order to put it back into the contexts out of which it came.

Formerly professor of history in the University of London, and Leverhulme Research Professor 2015-2017, Michael Questier moved to a research chair at the University of Vanderbilt in 2018 and is now attached to the Centre for Catholic Studies at the University of Durham.

Singlehandedly and without funding, Questier rescues the martyrs and their martyrologists, especially Challoner, from marginalized oblivion. Building on the research of Anne Dillon, Brad Gregory, and others, the author "takes the topic out of its conventional hagiographic wrapper, or at least the one that is often assigned to it, and reroutes it via an archive led process of reconstruction of the origins of the relevant documents in order to put it back into the contexts out of which it came.

Formerly professor of history in the University of London, and Leverhulme Research Professor 2015-2017, Michael Questier moved to a research chair at the University of Vanderbilt in 2018 and is now attached to the Centre for Catholic Studies at the University of Durham.

Singlehandedly and without funding, Questier rescues the martyrs and their martyrologists, especially Challoner, from marginalized oblivion. Building on the research of Anne Dillon, Brad Gregory, and others, the author "takes the topic out of its conventional hagiographic wrapper, or at least the one that is often assigned to it, and reroutes it via an archive led process of reconstruction of the origins of the relevant documents in order to put it back into the contexts out of which it came.