Richard Whatmore

Richard Whatmore is Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews and Co-director of the Institute of Intellectual History.


Liberty and Fanaticism

Talk given in Vienna in December 2023.

Democracy and Empire

Democracies should not be empires, being unions of one free people or equally free peoples. Yet there is a direct connection between mass democracy and the world of guns, coal and steel as they emerged together in the nineteenth century.

The Waterford Experiment

The Waterford Experiment tells the story of the New Geneva settlement of 1783 and follows on from his 2019 'Anarchists and terrorists at Geneva and Waterford in the 1780s.

The End of Enlightenment and After

The Max Weber Lecture. November 2019. EUI.


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