Harry Thomas Dickinson FRSE (born 9 March 1939, Gateshead

Gateshead

Gateshead is a town in Tyne and Wear, England and is the main settlement in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead. Historically a part of County Durham, it lies on the southern bank of the River Tyne opposite Newcastle upon Tyne and together they form the urban core of Tyneside...

) is an English historian specialising in British eighteenth century politics. He got his BA and MA from the University of Durham and his PhD from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne

University of Newcastle upon Tyne

Newcastle University is a major research-intensive university located in Newcastle upon Tyne in the north-east of England. It was established as a School of Medicine and Surgery in 1834 and became the University of Newcastle upon Tyne by an Act of Parliament in August 1963. Newcastle University is...

. He was Reader in History at the University of Edinburgh

University of Edinburgh

The University of Edinburgh, founded in 1583, is a public research university located in Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The university is deeply embedded in the fabric of the city, with many of the buildings in the historic Old Town belonging to the university...

 and Richard Lodge Professor of British history at Edinburgh. He was editor of the journal History from 1993 to 2000. Isaac Kramnick

Isaac Kramnick

Isaac Kramnick is an American historian, social scientist and the Richard J. Schwartz Professor of Government at Cornell University. He is a subject-matter expert on English and American political thought and history.-Research:...

 wrote that of the biographies of Lord Bolingbroke

Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke was an English politician, government official and political philosopher. He was a leader of the Tories, and supported the Church of England politically despite his atheism. In 1715 he supported the Jacobite rebellion of 1715 which sought to overthrow the...

, Dickinson's was the "most reliable". In the opinion of David Armitage

David Armitage (historian)

- Life and research :Armitage studies imperial, international, and intellectual history at Harvard University where he is the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History. Armitage graduated from the University of Cambridge, and spent 2000 and 2001 on a fellowship at Harvard, before moving there from...

, Dickinson's life of Lord Bolingbroke "replaced all earlier accounts".

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).