Madeleine Armstrong

I am a PhD candidate in Intellectual History at Trinity College and a recipient of the Cambridge International Scholarship. I was an undergraduate at the University of St Andrews, where I was awarded the Alan Robertson Memorial Prize for the best undergraduate History dissertation (2017). I obtained my MPhil from Cambridge under the supervision of Dr Lawrence Klein, and then spent a year in Paris, learning French at the Sorbonne and tutoring students in History and English. I returned to Cambridge in 2019 to begin my PhD under the supervision of Dr Sylvana Tomaselli. I am writing about the importance of family life in the political thought of Edmund Burke. I am generally interested in ideas about marriage, parenthood, and their civic purpose in the history of political thought.