Career Summary
Anthony Page joined the School in 2002 as Lecturer in European History at the Launceston campus.
During the mid 1990s he researched a doctorate in British history under the supervision of Professor Wilfrid Prest at the University of Adelaide. 1999-2001 was spent as an English & SOSE teacher at Broadford Secondary College in Victoria. In 2000 he was invited to present a paper to the annual 'International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World', hosted by Bernard Bailyn at Harvard University. In December 2005 he hosted the Australasian Modern British History Association (AMBHA) biennial conference in Launceston.
Anthony is Reviews Editor for the journal Enlightenment and Dissent
Publications
John Jebb and the Enlightenment Origins of British Radicalism (Praeger, Westport, Connecticut and London, 2003), xii + 309 pages.
eCite Link: ‘The Dean of St. Asaph’s Trial: libel and politics in the 1780s’, Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 32(1) pp.21-35 (2009)
eCite Link: 'A Great Politicianess': Ann Jebb, Rational Dissent and Politics in Late Eighteenth-Century Britain’, Women's History Review, 17(5) pp.743-765 (2008)
eCite Link: "Liberty has an Asylum": John Jebb, British Radicalism and the American Revolution', History The Journal of the Historical Association, 87 (286) pp.204-226 (2002)
ePrints Link: 'Probably the most indefatigable prince that ever existed': a Rational Dissenting perspective on Frederick the Great, Enlightenment and Dissent, 23 pp.85-130 (2007)
Please refer to the Full Publication List for further information on Anthony's publications.
Research Interests
Anthony’s research focuses on the Enlightenment and British culture in the age of revolutions. Author of John Jebb and the Enlightenment Origins of British Radicalism (2003), he is currently writing a book titled Britain and the Seventy Years War, 1745-1815: Enlightenment, Revolution and Empire for Palgrave Macmillan’s British History in Perspective series. Researching various aspects of Unitarian Rational Dissent in eighteenth-century Britain, he is working with Martin Fitzpatrick at producing a published edition of the large correspondence c. 1750-1810 between the English Rational Dissenter Samuel Kenrick and Scottish clergyman James Wodrow housed in the Dr Williams Library, London.
He is also researching the role of Unitarian Rational Dissent in the British campaign to abolish the slave trade.
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