Rachel Hammersley is Professor of

Intellectual History Intellectual history (also the history of ideas) is the study of the history of human thought and of intellectuals, people who conceptualize, discuss, write about, and concern themselves with ideas. The investigative premise of intellectual histor ...

Newcastle University Newcastle University (legally the University of Newcastle upon Tyne) is a UK public university, public research university based in Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England. It has overseas campuses in Singapore and Malaysia. The university is ...

. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and an editorial board member for the journals ''

History of European Ideas ''History of European Ideas'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering the intellectual history of Europe from the Renaissance onwards. It was established in 1980 and is published by Routledge. The editor-in-chief is Richard Whatmore ( Univ ...

'' and
Global Intellectual History
'. From 2001 to 2004, Hammersley was a lecturer, and then Leverhulme Research Fellow, at

Sussex University , mottoeng = Be Still and Know , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £14.4 million (2020) , budget = £319.6 million (2019–20) , chancellor = Sanjeev Bhaskar , vice_chancellor = Sasha Roseneil , ...

. In June 2018, she was a member of the expert panel on BBC Radio 4's ''

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'' on Montesquieu. The BBC radio 4 series ''Making History'' has featured Hammersley as an expert in 2010 on late eighteenth century French plans to invade Britain, in 2015, for the same programme, she was asked to discuss the

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siege of Carlisle and the French Resistance, and in 2017 she contributed to a feature on the Northumbrian Enlightenment. Her early research was concerned with the influence of English republican ideas on the French Revolution, focusing in particular on the employment of those ideas by some members of the Cordeliers Club. She has also investigated the two-way flow of ideas across the Channel in the eighteenth century. More recently she has produced a biography of James Harrington, an English republican political theorist, and a text on Republicanism.

Selected publications

*Hammersley, Rachel (2020) '' Republicanism: An introduction'', Cambridge, Polity Press. *Hammersley, Rachel (2019) '' James Harrington: An intellectual biography'', Oxford University Press, * * *

References

Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Fellows of the Royal Historical Society British women historians Academics of Newcastle University Academics of the University of Sussex {{UK-historian-stub