Thomas J. Holland

PhD candidate in History of Political Thought
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Thomas Holland is a PhD candidate in Political Thought at King's College. His thesis explores political theories of inherited wealth and distributive justice between the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, from Alexis de Tocqueville to John Rawls. His research is supervised by Professor Richard Bourke, and is supported by an AHRC & King's College Studentship. Previously, he completed the MA History of Political Thought at UCL, and a BA in Art and Philosophy at the University of Dundee.

Twitter: @Tom_J_Holland

Inequality, Distributive Justice, Property, Democracy

Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS):

POL8 - History of Political Thought c. 1700 - c. 1890

History Faculty:

POL11 - Political Philosophy & The History of Political Thought Since c. 1890

'A Revolution in Property: Tocqueville and Beaumont on Democratic Inheritance Reform,' Political Thought and Intellectual History Workshop, University of Cambridge (Nov, 2023)

'A Revolution in Property: Tocqueville and Beaumont on Democratic Inheritance Reform,' Centre for History and Economics, University of Cambridge (Oct, 2023)

'A Revolution in Property: Tocqueville and Beaumont on Democratic Inheritance Reform,' Property and Power in the History of Political Thought, Graduate Conference, University College London (June, 2023)

'Regimes of Inheritance, from Mill to Rawls,' Centre for History and Economics, University of Cambridge (May, 2022)

'Inheritance as Political Theory,' Faculty of History, University of Cambridge (March, 2022)

Panel discussant on Helen McCabe's John Stuart Mill: Socialist, Britain and Ireland Association for Political Theory, University of Oxford (January, 2022)

‘John Austin and Tocqueville’s Influence upon J. S. Mill’s Inheritance Tax Proposal’, Modern European History Workshop, Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge (October, 2021)

Contact

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Address

King's College, Cambridge, CB2 1ST

Email
tjh97@cam.ac.uk

Key publications

Peer-Reviewed:

'A Revolution in Property: Tocqueville and Beaumont on Democratic Inheritance Reform,' Modern Intellectual History (September, 2023)

'John Stuart Mill & The Politics of Inheritance', History of Political Thought (Spring, 2022)

Other:

'Class Struggle and the Revision of British Socialism - The JHI in the Early Cold War - Virtual Issue 3.2,' Journal of the History of Ideas Blog (February, 2023)

'Tocqueville and Property-Owning Democracy,' Tocqueville21 (September, 2022)

'Hugh Dalton and the "Strange Neglect" of Inherited Wealth,' Journal of the History of Ideas Blog (September, 2022)