Stuart Andrews

Dead White Politicians

Stuart Andrews on three titles which looks at the Founding Fathers.

Published April 30 1997

Josiah Wedgwood; & A Lancashire Gentleman

Stuart Andrews reviews

Published August 31 1993

'Insects of the Hour': Dr Price's 'Revolutions'

Stuart Andrews considers the life and radical milieu of the dissenting preacher whose support first for the American and then the French Revolutions brought him public controversy, and in the case of the latter, triggered Edmund Burke's classic denunciation of 1789.

Published April 30 1991

The First Salute

by Barbara Tuchman

Published October 1 1989

Inventing the People

Edmund S. Morgan, the Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America

Published July 31 1989

Classicism and the American Revolution

The symbols, slogans, ideas and architecture of the Founding Fathers were saturated in the world of Ancient Greece and Rome.

Published January 1 1987

Tom Paine in France

Stuart Andrews shows how, in his person and in his writings, Tom Paine forms a link between the two great revolutions of the late eighteenth century - the American and the French.

Published July 31 1983

Paine's American Pamphlets

Stuart Andrews shows how Tom Paine not only popularised the idea of American Independence but helped to keep the spirit of Union alive through seven years of war.

Published June 30 1981

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Lords of the Northern Forest

The Hudson's Bay Company was one of the central forces moulding the development of the vast tracts of land that today are Canada - but as Barry Gough explains here, the circumstances of its launch in 1670 also reveal much about the commercial forces, personalities and rivalries of Restoration England.