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

Authored book

• Craig, D. (2007). Robert Southey and Romantic Apostasy. Political Argument in Britain, 1780-1840. Boydell & Brewer

Book review

• Craig, D. (2016). Strange Modernity?. Journal of Victorian Culture, 21(2), 256-260. https://doi.org/10.1080/13555502.2016.1170426

Chapter in book

• Craig, D. (2018). Political Ideas and Languages. In D. Brown, R. Crowcroft, & G. Pentland (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Modern British Political History, 1800-2000. Oxford University Press
• Craig, D. (2016). Political Ideas and 'Real' Politics. In N. Turnbull (Ed.), Interpreting governance, high politics, and public policy : essays commemorating Interpreting British governance (97-114). Routledge
• Craig, D. (2013). Statesmanship. In D. Craig, & J. Thompson (Eds.), Languages of politics in nineteenth-century Britain (44-68). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137312891_3
• Craig, D., & Thompson, J. (2013). Introduction. In D. Craig, & J. Thompson (Eds.), Languages of politics in nineteenth-century Britain (1-20). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137312891_1
• Craig, D. (2012). Burke and the constitution. In D. Dwan, & C. J. Insole (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Edmund Burke (104-116). Cambridge University Press
• Craig, D. (2007). Bagehot's republicanism. In A. Olechnowicz (Ed.), The monarchy and the British nation, 1780 to the present (139-162). Cambridge University Press
• Craig, D. (2006). Subservient Talents? Robert Southey as a Public Moralist. In L. Pratt (Ed.), Robert Southey and the contexts of English romanticism (101-114). Ashgate Publishing

Edited book

• Craig, D., & Thompson, J. (Eds.). (2013). Languages of Politics in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Palgrave

Journal Article

• Craig, D. (2022). Republicanism versus Liberalism: Towards a Pre-History. Intellectual History Review, 33(1), 101-130. https://doi.org/10.1080/17496977.2022.2148324
• Craig, D. (2020). Tories and the Language of 'Liberalism' in the 1820s. The English Historical Review, 135(576), 1195-1228. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceaa250
• Craig, D. (2019). The Language of Liberality in Britain, c.1760-c.1815. Modern Intellectual History, 16(3), 771-801. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1479244317000610
• Craig, D. (2012). The origins of ‘liberalism’ in Britain: the case of The Liberal. Historical Research, 85(229), 469-487. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.2012.00601.x
• Craig, D. (2010). Advanced conservative liberalism: party and principle in Trollope's parliamentary novels. Victorian Literature and Culture, 38(2), 355-371. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1060150310000033
• Craig, D. (2010). High politics' and the 'new political history. Historical Journal, 53(2), 453-475. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x10000129
• Craig, D. (2003). The crowned republic? Monarchy and anti-monarchy in Britain, 1760-1901. Historical Journal, 46(1), 167-185. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x02002893
• Craig, D. (2003). Democracy and 'national character'. History of European Ideas, 29, 493-501
• Craig, D. (2001). 'Queer lodgings': gender and sexuality in The Lord of the Rings