H. T. Dickinson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

H. T. Dickinson

English historian

Date of Birth: 09-Mar-1939

Place of Birth: United Kingdom

Profession: historian

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Harry Thomas Dickinson FRSE (born 9 March 1939, Gateshead) is an English historian specialising in British eighteenth century politics.
He obtained his BA and MA from the University of Durham and his PhD from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
He was reader in history at the University of Edinburgh and Richard Lodge Professor of British history at Edinburgh.
He was editor of the journal History from 1993 to 2000.
Isaac Kramnick wrote that of the biographies of Lord Bolingbroke, Dickinson's was the "most reliable".
In the opinion of David Armitage, Dickinson's life of Lord Bolingbroke "replaced all earlier accounts".