Dickinson, Harry Thomas

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DICKINSON, Harry Thomas

DICKINSON, Harry Thomas. British, b. 1939. Genres: History, Biography. Career: Professor of History, Edinburgh University, 1980- (Lecturer and Reader, 1966-80); concurrently, Professor of History, Nanjing University, China, 1987-. History Master, Washington Grammar School, Co. Durham, 1961-64; Earl Grey Research Fellow, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1964-66. Publications: Bolingbroke, 1970; Walpole and the Whig Supremacy, 1973; Liberty and Property, 1977; British Radicalism and the French Revolution, 1985; Caricatures and the Constitution 1760-1832, 1986; The Politics of the People in Eighteenth-Century Britain, 1995. EDITOR: Correspondence of Sir James Clavering, 1967; Politics and Literature in the 18th Century, 1974; The Political Works of Thomas Spence, 1982; Britain and the French Revolution 1789-1815, 1989; Britain and the American Revolution, 1998; (with M. Lynch) The Challenge to Westminster, 2000; A Companion to Eighteenth-Century Britain, 2002. Address: History Dept, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9JY, Scotland. Online address: [email protected]

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