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Dr Andrew Thompson

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Dr Andrew Thompson

College Lecturer in History

Queens' College
Cambridge CB3 9ET
Office Phone: 01223 3 35539
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Subject groups/Research projects

Modern British History:
Modern European History:

Departments and Institutes

Queens' College:

Teaching

Supervises British political and constitutional history (1700-1914) and European history (1714-1914) in Part I of the history tripos. He has supervised Part II dissertations on both British and European topics and would be interested in hearing from graduate students wishing to work on eighteenth-century politics and diplomacy.

Key Publications

  • Popery, politics, and private judgement in early Hanoverian Britain', Historical Journal, 45 (2002)
  • 'Contesting the Test Act: Dissent, Parliament and the Public in the 1730s', Parliament and Dissent, ed. Stephen Taylor and David L. Wykes (Edinburgh, 2005)
  • Britain, Hanover and the protestant interest (Woodbridge, 2006)
  • George II: King and Elector (New Haven and London, 2011)