Dr Rachel Hammersley

• Co-Investigator School of History, Classics & Archaeology
• Email: rachel.hammersley@ncl.ac.uk
• Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 6698
• Twitter: @rhammersley99

Rachel Hammersley is a Senior Lecturer in Intellectual History at Newcastle University. Her research has explored ideas of republicanism, democracy and revolution in the early-modern period and the exchange of ideas between Britain and France. Her books include The English Republican Tradition and Eighteenth-Century France (Manchester University Press, 2010) and James Harrington: An Intellectual Biography (Oxford University Press, 2019). She has also published articles on Thomas Spence and on the politics of the Town Moor in C18 Newcastle. As a Co-I she leads the 'Past' dimension of the project.