Harry Thomas Dickinson FRSE (born 9 March 1939) is an English historian specialising in British eighteenth century politics. He obtained his BA and MA from the

University of Durham Durham University (legally the University of Durham) is a collegiate university, collegiate public university, public research university in Durham, England, Durham, England, founded by an Act of Parliament in 1832 and incorporated by royal charte ...

and his PhD from the

University of Newcastle upon Tyne Newcastle University (legally the University of Newcastle upon Tyne) is a UK public research university based in Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England. It has overseas campuses in Singapore and Malaysia. The university is a red brick unive ...

. He was Reader in History and later Richard Lodge Professor of British History at the

University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh ( sco, University o Edinburgh, gd, Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann; abbreviated as ''Edin.'' in post-nominals) is a public research university based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Granted a royal charter by King James VI in 15 ...

. He was editor of the journal ''

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'' from 1993 to 2000.

Isaac Kramnick Isaac Kramnick (March 6, 1938 – December 21, 2019) was an American political theorist, historian of political thought, political scientist, and the Richard J. Schwartz Professor of Government at Cornell University. He was a subject-matter expert ...

wrote that of the biographies of

Lord Bolingbroke Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (; 16 September 1678 – 12 December 1751) was an English politician, government official and political philosopher. He was a leader of the Tories, and supported the Church of England politically des ...

, Dickinson's was the "most reliable". In the opinion of David Armitage, Dickinson's life of Lord Bolingbroke "replaced all earlier accounts".David Armitage (ed.), ''Bolingbroke: Political Writings'' (Cambridge University Press, 1997), p. xxx.

Works

*(editor), ''The Correspondence of Sir James Clavering'' (1967). *''Bolingbroke: "The Idea of a Patriot King"'', ''History Today'' 20, I (January 1970), pp. 13–19. *''Bolingbroke'' (1970). *''Walpole and the Whig Supremacy'' (1973). *(editor), ''Politics and Literature in Eighteenth-Century Britain'' (1974). *''Liberty and Property: Political Ideology in Eighteenth-Century Britain'' (1977 and 1979). *'Whiggism in the eighteenth century', in John Cannon (ed.), ''The Whig Ascendancy. Colloquies on Hanoverian Britain'' (1981), pp. 28–44. *(editor), ''The Political Works of Thomas Spence'' (1982). *''British Radicalism and the French Revolution, 1789-1815'' (1985). *''Caricatures and the Constitution, 1760-1832'' (1986). *(editor), ''Britain and the French Revolution, 1789-1815'' (1989). *''The Politics of the People in Eighteenth-Century Britain'' (1994 and 1995). *(editor), ''Britain and the American Revolution'' (1998). *(editor, with Michael Lynch), ''The Challenge to Westminster'' (2000). *'"The Friends of America": British sympathy with the American Revolution', in Michael T. Davis (ed.), ''Radicalism and Revolution in Britain, 1775-1848'' (2000). *(editor), ''A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Britain'' (2002). *'Richard Price on reason and revolution', in William Gibson and Robert G. Ingram (eds.), ''Religion, Politics and Identity, 1660-1832'' (2005). *(editor), ''Constitutional Documents of the United Kingdom, 1782-1835'' (2005). *25 entries in Gregory Fremont-Barnes (ed.), ''Encyclopedia of the Age of Political Revolutions and New Ideologies, 1760-1815'' (2007). *'The Representation of the People in Eighteenth-Century Britain', in Maia Jansson (ed.), ''Realities and Representation'' (2007), pp. 19–44. *(editor), ''British Pamphlets on the American Revolution, 1763 - 1785''. 8 vols. (2007-8). *(co-editor), ''Reactions to Revolutions'' (2007).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dickinson, H. T. English historians Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Academics of the University of Edinburgh People from Gateshead 1939 births Living people Alumni of King's College, Newcastle