Staff profile

David Craig’s research interests focus on the political culture and intellectual history of Britain since 1750. His work on the intellectual aftermath of the French Revolution has resulted in Robert Southey and Romantic Apostasy, and he has also published on aspects of the history of republicanism, the monarchy and national character. He is currently working on the evolution and use of the language of 'liberalism' from the late-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century and is also interested in ideas of 'civilisation' and 'development' in this period. An additional research interest concerns the scope and nature of 'political history' as a form of enquiry.

• Ideas of 'civilisation'
• Politcal thought and intellectual history
• History of liberalism
• Political culture in nineteenth-century Britain

• Britain and Continental Europe
• Modern
• Political Cultures

Authored book

• Craig, D.M. (2007). Robert Southey and Romantic Apostasy. Political Argument in Britain, 1780-1840. Woodbridge: Boydell Press.

Book review

• Craig, David (2016). Strange Modernity? Journal of Victorian Culture 21(2): 256-260.

Chapter in book

• Craig, David (2018). Political Ideas and Languages. In The Oxford Handbook of Modern British Political History, 1800-2000. Brown, David, Crowcroft, Robert & Pentland, Gordon Oxford University Press.
• Craig, David (2016). Political Ideas and 'Real' Politics. In Interpreting Governance, High Politics, and Public Policy: Essays Commemorating Interpreting British Governance. Turnbull, Nick New York: Routledge. 97-114.
• Craig, David & Thompson, James (2013). Introduction. In Languages of Politics in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Craig, David & Thompson, James Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. 1-20.
• Craig, David (2013). Statesmanship. In Languages of Politics in Nineteenth Century Britain. Craig, David & Thompson, James Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan. 44-68.
• David Craig (2012). Burke and the constitution. In The Cambridge Companion to Edmund Burke. David Dwan & Christopher J. Insole Cambridge University Press. 104-116.
• Craig.D. (2007). Bagehot's republicanism. In The Monarchy and the British Nation, 1780 to the Present. Andrzej Olechnowicz Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 139-162.
• Craig, D.M. (2006). Subservient Talents? Robert Southey as a Public Moralist. In Robert Southey and the Contexts of English Romanticism. Lynda Pratt Aldershot: Ashgate. 101-114.

Edited book

• David Craig & James Thompson (2013). Languages of Politics in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Palgrave.

Journal Article

• Craig, David (2023). Republicanism versus Liberalism: Towards a Pre-History. Intellectual History Review 33(1): 101-130.
• Craig, David (2020). Tories and the Language of 'Liberalism' in the 1820s. English Historical Review 135(576): 1195–1228.
• Craig, David (2019). The Language of Liberality in Britain, c.1760-c.1815. Modern Intellectual History 16(3): 771-801.
• Craig, David (2012). The origins of ‘liberalism’ in Britain: the case of The Liberal. Historical Research 85(229): 469-487.
• David Craig (2010). Advanced conservative liberalism: party and principle in Trollope's parliamentary novels. Victorian Literature and Culture 38(2): 355-371.
• David Craig (2010). 'High politics' and the 'new political history'. Historical Journal 53(2): 453-475.
• Craig, D. M. (2003). The crowned republic? Monarchy and anti-monarchy in Britain, 1760-1901. Historical Journal 46(1): 167-185.
• (2003). Democracy and 'national character'. History of European Ideas 29: 493-501.
• Craig, D.M. (2001). 'Queer lodgings': gender and sexuality in The Lord of the Rings. Mallorn: The Journal of the Tolkien Society 38: 11-18.