P D G Thomas

Biographic Data

ID3977202
NAMEP D G Thomas
GIVEN NAMESP D G
FAMILY NAMEThomas
SIGNATURETHOMAS P D G
AFFILIATIONSAberystwyth University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1975
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
H-INDEX0

  • A Young Tory’? The Early Parliamentary Career of Charles James Fox 1768–74

    Open AccessP D G ThomasARTICLEParliamentary History2018

    This article seeks to redress the neglect, even by his biographers, of Fox's early career, when he made over 250 speeches in the house of commons in six years. The period when young Fox supported government was an inappropriate prelude to his later fame as opponent of Prime Minister Pitt and champion of ‘liberal causes’. He was anything but a ‘man of the people’ in his authoritarian attitude and detestation of popular opinion, and yet there were …

  • Sir Henry Cavendish (1732–1804), Parliamentarian in Two Countries

    Open AccessP D G ThomasARTICLEParliamentary History2017

    Sir Henry Cavendish, who sat in the Irish parliament from 1766 to 1768 and from 1776 to 1800, and in the Westminster parliament from 1768 to 1774, was a parliamentarian par excellence . His chief claim to fame is as a parliamentary diarist, in both houses of commons, noting down in shorthand some five million words. But this article is on Cavendish as a politician. He was a prolific speaker in both parliaments. But finding himself only a second‐r…

  • The Irish Parliamentary Diary (1776–89) of Sir Henry Cavendish

    Open AccessP D G ThomasARTICLEParliamentary History2016

    This article clarifies the history of the ‘parliamentary diary’ compiled by Sir Henry Cavendish while a member of the Irish parliament between 1776 and 1789, correcting misapprehensions in previous accounts, in particular the assertion by A.P.W. Malcomson and D.J. Jackson that Cavendish paid less attention to recording debates in the 1780s

  • Parliament and Foreign Policy in the Eighteenth Century

    P D G ThomasARTICLEThe English Historical Review2006

    Journal Article Parliament and Foreign Policy in the Eighteenth Century Get access Parliament and Foreign Policy in the Eighteenth Century, by Jeremy Black (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2004; pp. 261. £45). Peter D.G. Thomas Peter D.G. Thomas Aberystwyth Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXI, Issue 494, December 2006, Pages 1541–1542, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cel346 Pu…

  • Troublesome Empire

    P D G ThomasARTICLEThe International History Review1991

    ROBERT M. BLISS. Revolution and Empire: English Politics and the American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century. Manchester: Manchester University Press; dist New York: Columbia University Press, 1990. Pp. xi, 300. JOHN MORGAN DEDERER. War in America to 1775: Before Yankee Doodle. New York and London: New York University Press; dist. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990. Pp. xvii, 323. MAX M. MINTZ. The Generals of Saratoga: John Burgoyne and …

  • Short Notices

    P D G ThomasARTICLEThe English Historical Review1981

    Journal Article SHORT NOTICES Get access P. D. G. THOMAS P. D. G. THOMAS University College of WalesAberystwyth Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCVI, Issue CCCLXXIX, April 1981, Pages 451-a–451, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCVI.CCCLXXIX.451-a Published: 01 April 1981

  • The Rough Gripe of England

    Stephen Saunders Webb, P D G Thomas et al.ARTICLEReviews in American History1975