H. T. Dickinson is Richard Lodge Professor of British History at Edinburgh University. He is a former President of the Historical Association and a former Vice President of the Royal Historical Society. He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Richmond. His numerous books include "British Radicalism and the French Revolution 1789-1815 ("1985), "Caricatures and the Constitution 1760-1832" (1986) and "The Politics of the People in Eighteenth-Century Britain" (1995). He was also editor of the journal "History" from 1993 to 2000.