Originating from Chatham, Kent, and now living in London, UK, Connor Ashley Clayton holds an MA in Modern History from from The University of Warwick, and a PhD from Queen Mary University of London. His 2025 doctoral dissertation is The Pursuit of Love: An Emotional History of Peoples Temple and Jonestown, 1955-1978. He can be reached at connor.a.clayton@qmul.ac.uk.
An English Historian’s Visit to the California Historical Society (2023)
Thomas Partak: A Jonestown Life in Turmoil (2022)
On Normalising the Study of Peoples Temple (2022)
A Status Check – and a Clarion Call – for Jonestown Researchers, a review (2022)
Jim Jones and Father Divine: Emotional Frameworks of Worship (2021)
An Appeal to Emotion: History, Emotions, and Jonestown (2020)
Originally posted on October 20th, 2021.
Last modified on March 14th, 2025.