Philp, Mark

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Name (Latin)
Philp, Mark
Date of birth
1952-05-17
Associated country
Great Britain
Field of activity
Political science--History
Political sociology
Occupation
College teachers
Historians
Political scientists
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 32080181
Wikidata: Q6769257
Library of congress: n 83035669
Sources of Information

Wikipedia description:

Mark Philp (born 17 May 1952) is a British political philosopher and historian of political thought who specialises in British political thought in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He has published books on Thomas Paine and on responses to the French Revolution in Britain. Philp was a Fellow of Oriel College from 1983 to 2013, and was head of the then newly created University of Oxford Department of Politics and International Relations from 2000 to 2005. He is currently professor of History and Politics at the University of Warwick working on political corruption and the standards of public life, as well as democratic thought in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. [1]. Recently, Philp completed a three-year digitisation project of the diaries of William Godwin, funded by a Leverhulme Research Project Grant. [2]. Philp currently chairs the research advisory board for the United Kingdom's Committee on Standards in Public Life.

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