Robert Saunders is Reader in Modern British History at Queen Mary University of London. He specialises in political and intellectual history from 1830 to the present day, ranging from sermons preached against the Great Reform Act to the political thought of Boris Johnson. He is the author of Yes to Europe! The 1975 Referendum and Seventies Britain, which won the American Historical Association’s Morris D. Forkosch Prize in 2019, and Democracy and the Vote in British Politics, and has featured as a political commentator in the New Statesman, the Economist, The Times, Channel 4 News, BBC Newsnight and many other outlets. While at St Hugh’s, he will be working on a history of British democracy, ahead of the centenary of universal male and female suffrage in 2028.
