Dr Mark Goldie

Reader in British Intellectual History

Churchill College Cambridge CB3 0DS mag1010@cam.ac.uk

Mark Goldie took his BA from Sussex University and his PhD from Cambridge. After a research fellowship at Caius College, he joined Churchill as College Lecturer and Director of Studies, and latterly as a University Lecturer and Reader. He has been an editor of The Historical Journal and Vice-Master of his College. A member of two of the Faculty’s Subject Groups, he shares his teaching between Early Modern British History and the History of Political Thought.

Research interests and area of research supervision

British political, intellectual, and religious history, 1660-1750. Currently working on an intellectual biography of John Locke. Work in progress includes an edition of the Early Lives of John Locke, and collected essays on politics, religion, and ideas in Restoration England. In the early 2000s, led a collaborative project to publish The Entring Book of Roger Morrice, a substantial Restoration diary: see here.

Research Suervision

Mark Goldie has supervised twenty-six PhD students, fifteen of whom became university postholders, twelve publishing their theses as books. Former students include David Allan, Justin Champion, John Coffey, Natasha Glaisyer, Tim Harris, Sarah Irving, Clare Jackson, Geoff Kemp, Jacqueline Rose, Sami Savonius, Hannah Smith, Warren Johnston. Teaches also for the M Phils in Early Modern History, and Political Thought and Intellectual History.

Undergraduate Teaching

Lectures and supervises in Political Thought from Plato to Locke;  and Early Modern British Political and Religious History. Currently teaches a third-year Special Subject on Locke.

Selected Publications

Co-editor, The Politics of Religion in Restoration England (1990)

Co-editor, The Cambridge History of Political Thought, 1450-1700 (1991)

Editor, John Locke: Two Treatises of Government (1993)

Editor, John Locke: Political Essays (1997)

Editor, The Reception of Locke’s Politics (6 vols., 1999)

Editor, John Locke: Selected Correspondence (2002).

Co-editor, The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Political Thought (2006)

Co-editor, The Entring Book of Roger Morrice, 1677-1691 (6 vols., 2007)

Author, Roger Morrice and the Puritan Whigs (2007, Vol. 1 of the preceding)

Co-editor, Censorship of the Press, 1580-1720, Vol. 4 (2009)

Editor, John Locke: A Letter Concerning Toleration and Other Writings (2010)

‘The Roots of True Whiggism, 1688-1694', History of Political Thought, 1 (1980)

‘John Locke and Anglican Royalism’, Political Studies, 31 (1983)

‘The Scottish Catholic Enlightenment’, Journal of British Studies, 30 (1991)

‘The Theory of Religious Intolerance in Restoration England’, in O. P. Grell, et al., eds., From Persecution to Toleration (1991)

‘The Reception of Hobbes’, in J. H. Burns and M. Goldie, eds., The Cambridge History of Political Thought, 1450-1700 (1991)

‘Priestcraft and the Birth of Whiggism’, in N. Phillipson and Q. Skinner, eds., Political Discourse in Early Modern Britain (1993)

‘Politics and the Restoration Parish’, English Historical Review, 103 (1994)

‘J. N. Figgis and the History of Political Thought in Cambridge’, in R. Mason, ed., Cambridge Minds (1994)

‘Divergence and Union: Scotland and England, 1660-1707', in B. Bradshaw and J. Morrill, eds., The British Problem, 1534-1707 (1996)

‘The Hilton Gang and the Purge of London in the 1680s’, in H. Nenner, ed., Politics and the Political Imagination in Later Stuart Britain (1998)

‘The Unacknowledged Republic: Officeholding in Early Modern England’, in T. Harris, ed., The Politics of the Excluded, 1500-1850 (2001)

‘The Context of the Foundations’, in A. Brett, et al., eds., Rethinking the Foundations of Modern Political Thought (2006)

‘Mary Astell and John Locke’, in W. Kolbrener and M. Michelson, eds., Mary Astell: Reason, Gender, Faith (2007)

‘Roger L’Estrange’s Observator and the Exorcism of the Plot’, in A. Dunan-Page and B. Lynch, eds., Roger L’Estrange and the Making of Restoration Culture (2008)

‘Fifty Years of the Historical Journal’, Historical Journal, 51 (2008)

‘Alexander Geddes at the Limits of the Catholic Enlightenment’, Historical Journal, 53 (2010)

‘Annual Parliaments and Aristocratic Whiggism’, in J. Spurr, ed., The First Earl of Shaftesbury (2010)

‘The Life of Locke’, in S. Savonius et al., eds., Encyclopedia of Locke and his Times (2010)

‘Absolutism’, in G. Klosko, ed., The Oxford Handbook of the History of Political Thought (2010)

‘Situating Swift’s Politics in 1701', in C. Rawson, ed., Politics and Literature in England and Ireland in the Age of Swift (2010) 

Corbusier Comes to Cambridge: Post-War Architecture and the Competition to Build Churchill College (booklet, 2007)

Churchill College Cambridge: The Guide (booklet, 2009)

Editorships
 

General editor, The Roger Morrice Entring Book Project, 1996-2006

Co-editor, The Historical Journal, 1997-2001

Editorial Board, The Historical Journal

Editorial Board, History of Political Thought

Editorial Board, Eighteenth-Century Thought

Editorial Board, Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke

Advisory Board, Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift

Advisory Board, Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissenting Studies