Jonathan Clark is emeritus Joyce C and Elizabeth Ann Hall distinguished professor of British History at the University of Kansas. He was previously a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and Peterhouse, Cambridge. An expert on English history in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Professor Clark has been highly influential in shaping the way in which historians categorise the chronology of ‘the long-eighteenth century’ (a concept he devised) and has explored the commonalities and conflicts in its politics, religion and political thought. His books include Thomas Paine: Britain, America, and France in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution; A World by Itself: a History of the British Isles; and Samuel Johnson: Literature, Religion, and English Cultural Politics from the Restoration to Romanticism.