Dr Hugh Dunthorne was educated at the University of Edinburgh and the London School of Economics and has been a member of the History Department at Swansea since 1971. His research interests are in early modern European history, especially relations between Britain and the Low Countries, the Enlightenment, the history of art and of travel.

He is a member of MEMO, the Swansea Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Research. 

Current research

Dr Dunthorne is currently completing a study of the Dutch Revolt and its effect on Tudor & Stuart England.

Principal publications

Books

• The Enlightenment  (London: Historical Association, London, 1991)
• The Maritime Powers: a study of Anglo-Dutch relations in the Age of Walpole (London & New York: Garland, 1987)

Book-chapters and journal articles

• 'Dramatizing the Dutch Revolt: romantic history and its sixteenth-century antecedents', in J. Pollmann & A. Spicer, eds., Public opinion and changing identities in the early modern Netherlands: essays in honour of Alastair Duke (Leiden: Brill, 2006), 11-31
• 'The Dutch Republic: "That mother nation of liberty" ', in M. Fitzpatrick et al., eds., The Enlightenment World  (London: Routledge, 2004), 87-103
• ' "Ancient and familiar neighbours": England and Holland on the eve of the First Anglo-Dutch War', Cromwelliana (2003), 60-70
• 'Anglo-Dutch publishing during the Eighty Years' War (1568-1648)', in L. Hellinga, ed., The Bookshop of the World (Utrecht: H & S-De Graaf, 2001), 109-171
• 'Early romantic travellers in Wales and the Netherlands during the late eighteenth century', Dutch Crossing, 24 (2000), 208-221
• 'Beccaria and Britain', in D. W. Howell & K. O. Morgan, eds., Crime, protest and police in modern British society: essays in memory of David J. V. Jones(Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1999), 73-96
• 'Resisting monarchy: the Netherlands as Britain’s school of revolution in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries', in R. Oresko et al., eds., Royal and republic sovereignty in early modern Europe: essays in memory of Ragnhild Hatton (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), 125-148

Principal research awards, fellowships, and prizes

• AHRB Research Leave Award (2003-2004 )
• William III and his age, a collaborative research project with Dr David Onnekink, University of Utrecht, funded by the British Academy, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, and the Universities of Utrecht and Aberdeen (2002-2003)
• British Academy Research Fellowship, Newberry Library, Chicago (1988)
• Fulbright Exchange Professor, West Chester University of Pennsylvania (1987-1988)
• Visiting Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh (1981)