Ian Dyck (23 July 1954 – 15 July 2007) was a

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historian noted for his work on

William Cobbett William Cobbett (9 March 1763 – 18 June 1835) was an English pamphleteer, journalist, politician, and farmer born in Farnham, Surrey. He was one of an Agrarianism, agrarian faction seeking to reform Parliament, abolish "rotten boroughs", restr ...

, an English radical journalist and politician. Dyck contributed Cobbett's biography to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Dyck was the son of

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farmers and achieved BA and MA degrees from the

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. He was an assistant Professor of History at

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. In 2007 he died of lymphocytic leukemia.

Works

*''Citizens of the World: Essays on Thomas Paine'' (editor) (Christopher Helm Publishers, 1987). *''William Cobbett and Rural Popular Culture'' (Cambridge University Press, 1992). *'Introduction' in William Cobbett, ''Rural Rides'' (Penguin Classics, 2005), pp. vii-xxviii.

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