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Anthony Page
Anthony Page
Senior Lecturer, History
Associate Head, Learning and Teaching
Room Room 357 , Humanities Building
Dr Anthony Page is a Senior Lecturer in History in the School of Humanities who teaches British, European, American and world history. He is an expert on eighteenth-century Britain, and author of Britain and the Seventy Years War: Enlightenment, Revolution and Empire, 1744–1815. A member of the School of Humanities Writing Lives research group, Anthony’s first book was a biography of John Jebb (1736–86), a leading unitarian rational dissenter and political activist.
With Emma Macleod (Stirling) and Martin Fitzpatrick (Aberystwyth), Anthony is co-editing an Anglo-Scottish correspondence for Oxford University Press. The first volume of The Wodrow–Kenrick Correspondence, 1750–1810 appeared in 2020, and three more are forthcoming at over 200,000 words per volume. Little known until now, our scholarly edition will make these valuable letters widely available to scholars of the revolutionary era, Enlightenment, and Romanticism. We are tweeting lines from the correspondence @WodrowKenrick.
Biography
After working as a high school teacher in Victoria, Anthony joined the University of Tasmania in 2002. He has taught widely in the History program on both the Launceston and Sandy Bay campuses, and online.
Career summary
Qualifications
| Degree | Title of Thesis | University | Country | Awarded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PhD | Enlightened Patriot : John Jebb and Dissent in England, 1760-1785 | University of Adelaide | Australia | 1999 |
| BA (Hons) | La Trobe University | Australia | 1991 | |
| DipEd | University of Melbourne | Australia | 1997 |
Memberships
Professional practice
- Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
- Australian and New Zealand Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
- Australian Historical Association
- Tasmanian Historical Research Association
Administrative expertise
Anthony is the Associate Head of School (Teaching and Learning) for Humanities. He has held several leadership roles, including Head of History and Classics, Coordinator of the Diploma of Family History, Coordinator of the Bachelor of Arts, and lead the UTAS Historical Studies response to ERA 2018.
Teaching
History of Britain, America, and Europe
Teaching expertise
Anthony has two decades of experience creating and teaching units across many fields in modern history.
Teaching responsibility
Anthony coordinates and/or teaches
- HTA101 European History: Renaissance to Revolutions
- HTA102 World History: The First Globalisation
- HTA270 Making Modern America: Revolution and Civil War
- HTA232 The Age of Catastrophe, 1914–1945
- HTA367 Age of Revolution and Empire: Britain and France
Anthony contributes some teaching to
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Expertise
Anthony is an internationally recognised expert on eighteenth-century Protestant ‘Rational Dissenters’, and his publications are used by people in various disciplines studying aspects of Enlightenment and Romanticism in Britain. Friends of the American and French revolutionaries, the Rational Dissenters were prominent in the British intelligentsia and pioneered many reformist organisations. As such, they are central figures in understanding the Enlightenment origins of modern culture and liberal values.
Influenced by the Cambridge School of intellectual history, Anthony undertakes detailed study of the texts and social context of Rational Dissenters to analyse their role in pioneering campaigns for religious, political and antislavery reform.
Beyond his core expertise in Rational Dissent, Anthony has published a book on the impact of war on eighteenth-century Britain and has co-supervised research theses in colonial Tasmanian history.
Areas of research expertise include
- Protestant Rational Dissent and Unitarianism
- Enlightenment culture
- Origins of democratic radical politics
- The campaign to abolish the British slave trade
- Anglo-French wars in the eighteenth century
Collaboration
Anthony enjoys collaborating with other scholars and is a member of the Writing Lives research group at UTAS. Having co-authored a book chapter on ‘Edmund Burke and Rational Dissent’, and a collection of essays on Blackstone and His Critics, Anthony is currently working on a large long-term project co-editing The Wodrow–Kenrick Correspondence, 1750–1810 (4 vols, OUP, 2020–2026).
Awards
2000 PhD awarded E.W. Benham Prize for History at the University of Adelaide
Current projects
Anthony's current research projects include:
- Living the Enlightenment: The Wodrow-Kenrick Correspondence, 1750–1810
- Britain and war in the eighteenth century – with a focus on invasion scares
- The heterodox theology of Thomas Clarkson, founder of the British campaign to abolish the slave trade
Fields of Research
- British history (430304)
- Australian history (430302)
- European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman) (430308)
Research Objectives
- Understanding Europe's past (130704)
- Expanding knowledge in history, heritage and archaeology (280113)
- Expanding knowledge in human society (280123)
Publications
Anthony has published books with international publishers, and articles in journals such as The Historical Journal, Historical Research, War & Society, History Australia, Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Women's History Review, Slavery & Abolition, The International Journal of Maritime History and History. For many years Anthony was Reviews Editor for the specialist journal Enlightenment and Dissent.
Total publications
55
Highlighted publications
(5 outputs)| Year | Type | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Journal Article | Page A, ''Our insulted coasts': London newspapers and the invasion scare of 1781', International Journal of Maritime History, 33, (3) pp. 445-463. ISSN 0843-8714 (2021) [Refereed Article] | |
| 2020 | Book | Fitzpatrick M, MacLeod E, Page A, 'The Wodrow-Kenrick Correspondence, 1750-1810. Volume 1: 1750-1783', Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 564. ISBN 9780198809012 (2020) [Authored Research Book] | |
| 2015 | Book | Page AR, 'Britain and the Seventy Years War, 1744-1815', Palgrave Macmillan, London, pp. 263. ISBN 978-0-230-57770-1 (2015) [Authored Research Book] | |
| 2011 | Journal Article | Page A, 'Rational dissent, enlightenment and abolition of the British slave trade', The Historical Journal, 54, (3) pp. 741-772. ISSN 0018-246X (2011) [Refereed Article] DOI: 10.1017/S0018246X11000227 [eCite] [Details] Citations: Scopus - 8Web of Science - 10 | |
| 2003 | Book | Page AR, 'John Jebb and the Enlightenment Origins of British Radicalism', Praeger Publishers, Westport, Connecticut, pp. 309. ISBN 0275977757 (2003) [Authored Research Book] |
Journal Article
(15 outputs)| Year | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Page A, ''Our insulted coasts': London newspapers and the invasion scare of 1781', International Journal of Maritime History, 33, (3) pp. 445-463. ISSN 0843-8714 (2021) [Refereed Article] | |
| 2018 | Page A, 'War, public debt and Richard Price's Rational Dissenting radicalism', Historical Research, 91, (251) pp. 98-115. ISSN 1468-2281 (2018) [Refereed Article] DOI: 10.1111/1468-2281.12215 [eCite] [Details] Citations: Scopus - 2Web of Science - 2 | |
| 2016 | Page A, 'British visions of reform in the revolutionary era', Enlightenment and Dissent, 31 pp. 51-75. ISSN 0262-7612 (2016) [Refereed Article] | |
| 2016 | Page AR, 'Civil War and Revolution in British North America', Agora, 51, (1) pp. 20-27. ISSN 0044-6726 (2016) [Non Refereed Article] | |
| 2015 | Page A, 'The Seventy Years War, 1744-1815, and Britain's Fiscal-Naval State', War and Society, 34, (3) pp. 162-186. ISSN 0729-2473 (2015) [Refereed Article] DOI: 10.1179/0729247315Z.00000000053 [eCite] [Details] Citations: Scopus - 5Web of Science - 8 | |
| 2012 | Page A, 'Sensible Britons and the American Revolution', Enlightenment and Dissent, 28 pp. 196-220. ISSN 0262-7612 (2012) [Refereed Article] | |
| 2011 | Page A, 'Rational dissent, enlightenment and abolition of the British slave trade', The Historical Journal, 54, (3) pp. 741-772. ISSN 0018-246X (2011) [Refereed Article] DOI: 10.1017/S0018246X11000227 [eCite] [Details] Citations: Scopus - 8Web of Science - 10 | |
| 2011 | Page AR, ''A species of slavery': Richard Price's rational dissent and antislavery', Slavery and Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies, 32, (1) pp. 53-73. ISSN 0144-039X (2011) [Refereed Article] DOI: 10.1080/0144039X.2011.538198 [eCite] [Details] Citations: Scopus - 9Web of Science - 10 | |
| 2010 | Page AR, ''No effort can be lost': the Unitarianism and Republicanism of Ann Jebb (1735-1812)', Enlightenment and Dissent, 26 pp. 136-62. ISSN 0262-7612 (2010) [Refereed Article] | |
| 2009 | Page A, 'Enlightenment, empire and Lachlan Macquarie's journey through Persia and Russia', History Australia, 6, (3) pp. 70.1-70.15. ISSN 1449-0854 (2009) [Refereed Article] DOI: 10.2104/ha090070 [eCite] [Details] Citations: Scopus - 1 | |
| 2009 | Page AR, 'The Dean of St Asaph's trial: libel and politics in the 1780s', Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 32, (1) pp. 21-35. ISSN 1754-0194 (2009) [Refereed Article] DOI: 10.1111/j.1754-0208.2008.00108.x [eCite] [Details] Citations: Scopus - 4Web of Science - 3 | |
| 2008 | Page A, ''A Great Politicianess': Ann Jebb, rational dissent and politics in late eighteenth-century Britain', Womens History Review, 17, (5) pp. 743-765. ISSN 0961-2025 (2008) [Refereed Article] DOI: 10.1080/09612020802316736 [eCite] [Details] Citations: Scopus - 2 | |
| 2007 | Page AR, ''Probably the most indefatigable prince that ever existed': a Rational Dissenting perspective on Frederick the Great', Enlightenment and Dissent, 23 pp. 85-130. ISSN 0262-7612 (2007) [Refereed Article] | |
| 2002 | Page AR, ''Liberty has an Asylum': John Jebb, British Radicalism and the American Revolution', History The Journal of the Historical Association, 87, (286) pp. 204-226. ISSN 0018-2648 (2002) [Refereed Article] DOI: 10.1111/1468-229X.00221 [eCite] [Details] Citations: Web of Science - 3 | |
| 1998 | Page AR, 'The Enlightenment and a 'Second Reformation': the Religion and Philosophy of John Jebb (1736-86)', Enlightenment and Dissent, 17 pp. 48-82. ISSN 0262-7612 (1998) [Refereed Article] |
Book
(4 outputs)| Year | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Fitzpatrick M, MacLeod E, Page A, 'The Wodrow-Kenrick Correspondence, 1750-1810. Volume 1: 1750-1783', Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 564. ISBN 9780198809012 (2020) [Authored Research Book] | |
| 2018 | Page AR, Prest Wilfrid, 'Blackstone and His Critics', Hart, Oxford, pp. xxi + 229. ISBN 9781509910458 (2018) [Edited Book] | |
| 2015 | Page AR, 'Britain and the Seventy Years War, 1744-1815', Palgrave Macmillan, London, pp. 263. ISBN 978-0-230-57770-1 (2015) [Authored Research Book] | |
| 2003 | Page AR, 'John Jebb and the Enlightenment Origins of British Radicalism', Praeger Publishers, Westport, Connecticut, pp. 309. ISBN 0275977757 (2003) [Authored Research Book] |
Chapter in Book
(3 outputs)| Year | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Page AR, 'Rational Dissent and Blackstone's Commentaries', Blackstone and His Critics, Hart Publishing, Anthony Page and Wilfrid Prest (ed), Oxford, pp. 77-96. ISBN 9781509910458 (2018) [Research Book Chapter] | |
| 2018 | Page AR, Prest Wilfrid, 'Introduction', Blackstone and His Critics, Hart Publishing, Anthony Page and Wilfrid Prest (ed), Oxford, pp. ix-xxi. ISBN 9781509910458 (2018) [Research Book Chapter] | |
| 2017 | Fitzpatrick M, Page A, 'Edmund Burke and rational dissent', The Reception of Edmund Burke in Europe, Bloomsbury, P Jones and M Fitzpatrick (ed), London, pp. 55-73. ISBN 9781441196651 (2017) [Research Book Chapter] |
Review
(17 outputs)| Year | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Page A, 'Book review of Patrick Griffin's The Townshend Moment: The Making of Empire in the Eighteenth Century', Journal of British Studies, 58, (2) pp. 406-407. ISSN 0021-9371 (2019) [Review Single Work] | |
| 2012 | Page AR, 'Review of J. Bentham, Church-of-Englandism and its Catechism Examined. J.E. Crimmins and C. Fuller, eds., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2011; pp. 652', Journal of Religious History, 36, (3) pp. 447-448. ISSN 1467-9809 (2012) [Review Single Work] | |
| 2009 | Page AR, 'Review of Christopher L. Brown, Moral Capital: foundations of British abolitionism (Chapel Hill, 2006)', Enlightenment and Dissent, 25 pp. 300-304. ISSN 0262-7612 (2009) [Review Single Work] | |
| 2008 | Page AR, 'John Issitt, Jeremiah Joyce: Radical, Dissenter and Writer', Enlightenment and Dissent, 24 pp. 115-118. ISSN 0262-7612 (2008) [Review Single Work] | |
| 2008 | Page AR, 'Jack Fruchtman Jr., Atlantic Cousins: Benjamin Franklin and His Visionary Friends', Enlightenment and Dissent, 24 pp. 105-107. ISSN 0262-7612 (2008) [Review Single Work] | |
| 2008 | Page AR, 'Jeremy Black, George III: America's Last King', History, 92, (306) pp. 263-264. ISSN 0018-2648 (2008) [Review Single Work] | |
| 2007 | Page AR, 'Stephen Conway, War, State, and Society in mid-eighteenth-century Britain and Ireland ', History, 92, (306) pp. 263-264. ISSN 0018-2648 (2007) [Review Single Work] | |
| 2006 | Page AR, 'Sheldon S. Cohen, British Supporters of the American Revolution, 1775-1783: The Role of 'Middling Level' Activists', History, 91, (304) pp. 588-589. ISSN 0018-2648 (2006) [Review Single Work] | |
| 2006 | Page AR, 'Peter James Marshall, The Making and Unmaking of Empires: Britain, India, and America c. 1750-1783', History, 91, (303) pp. 462-463. ISSN 0018-2648 (2006) [Review Single Work] | |
| 2006 | Page AR, 'Jonathan Sheehan, The Enlightenment Bible: Translation, Scholarship, Culture', Journal of British Studies, 45, (2) pp. 396-397. ISSN 0021-9371 (2006) [Review Single Work] | |
| 2005 | Page AR, 'M. Fitzpatrick et al (eds.), The Enlightenment World', History, 90, (300) pp. 638-639. ISSN 0018-2648 (2005) [Review Single Work] | |
| 2005 | Page AR, 'Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason', History, 90, (299) pp. 452-453. ISSN 0018-2648 (2005) [Review Single Work] | |
| 2004 | Page AR, 'Peter D.G. Thomas, George III: King and Politicians 1760-1770', History, 89, (293) pp. 128-9. ISSN 0018-2648 (2004) [Review Single Work] | |
| 2004 | Page AR, 'Judith L Van Buskirk: Patriots and Loyalists in Revolutionary New York', History, 88, (292) pp. 635. ISSN 0018-2648 (2004) [Review Single Work] | |
| 2004 | Page AR, 'Pulpit Politics: Stuart Andrews, Unitarian Radicalism: Political Rhetoric, 1770-1814', History Workshop Journal, 58, (1) pp. 316-320. ISSN 0309-2984 (2004) [Review Single Work] | |
| 2002 | Page AR, 'Enlightenment in Australia', Enlightenment and Dissent, (21) pp. 170-182. ISSN 0262-7612 (2002) [Review Single Work] | |
| 2001 | Page AR, 'David Hartley on Human Nature', Enlightenment and Dissent, 20 pp. 123-135. ISSN 0262-7612 (2001) [Review Single Work] |
Conference Publication
(6 outputs)| Year | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Page AR, 'Richard Price and War', Revolution, Dissent, and Democracy: The Political Thought of Richard Price, 11 September, Yale University (2015) [Conference Extract] | |
| 2009 | Page AR, 'Unitarians and Abolitionism', Conference on Modern British History, 23-24 June, Glasgow, pp. 1. (2009) [Conference Extract] | |
| 2007 | Page AR, 'Rational Dissent, Antislavery and the Limits of Enlightenment in Late Eighteenth-Century England', North American Conference on British Studies, 9-11 November 2007, San Francisco, California, pp. 11. (2007) [Conference Extract] | |
| 2006 | Page AR, ''Priscilla' on Rational Dissent and Reform', The British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, 35th Annual Conference, 4-6 January, St. Hugh's College, Oxford, pp. 1. (2006) [Conference Extract] | |
| 2005 | Page AR, ''Eighteenth-century British perceptions of Frederick the Great and Prussia'', Enlightenment and Reform in Modern British Culture, 14th conference of the Australasian Modern British History Association, 12-14 December, Launceston, Tasmania, pp. 1. (2005) [Conference Extract] | |
| 2000 | Page AR, ''Liberty has an asylum': John Jebb, British Radicalism, and the American Revolution', The Circulation of Ideas, 1500-1825, 7-18 August, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, pp. WP#00010. (2000) [Conference Extract] |
Entry
(1 outputs)| Year | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Page AR, 'Cooper, Thomas (1759-1839)', The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment, Mark G. Spencer (ed), New York, 1, pp. 292-94 (2015) [Entry] |
Other Public Output
(9 outputs)| Year | Citation | Altmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Page AR, 'George III and the Seventy Years War, 1744-1815', Blog, Georgian Papers Programme, London, 3 January 2019 (2019) [Magazine Article] | |
| 2018 | Page A, 'American Independence: Interview with Firas Massouh', Evenings, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Hobart, Tasmania, 4 July 2018 (2018) [Media Interview] | |
| 2016 | Page AR, 'We wouldn't be here if it weren't for high debt and taxes', The Drum, ABC online, Australia, 11 May, online (2016) [Newspaper Article] | |
| 2014 | Page AR, 'Gettysburg and the American Civil War', Statewide Evenings, ABC Radio, Hobart, 8 July (2014) [Media Interview] | |
| 2013 | Page AR, 'Oliver Cromwell', Statewide Evenings, 936 ABC Radio, Hobart, 4 September (2013) [Media Interview] | |
| 2013 | Page AR, 'The British Invasions', Statewide Evenings, ABC Radio, Hobart, 25 February (2013) [Media Interview] | |
| 2013 | Page AR, 'Stalingrad', Statewide Evenings, ABC Radio, Hobart, 1 February (2013) [Media Interview] | |
| 2004 | Page AR, 'Remembering Private Ivan', The Examiner, Launceston, 26 June 2004 (2004) [Newspaper Article] | |
| 2004 | Page AR, 'D-Day not huge on State's calendar', The Advocate, Burnie, 5 June 2004 (2004) [Media Interview] |
Grants & Funding
Anthony has been awarded ARC Discovery Project funding (2006–08), and travel funding by Harvard University’s Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History (2000) and Yale University’s Center for the Study of Representative Institutions (2015).
Funding Summary
Number of grants
3
Total funding
Projects
- Funding
- University of Tasmania ($818)
- Scheme
- Grant-Conference Support Scheme
- Administered By
- University of Tasmania
- Research Team
- Page AR
- Year
- 2011
- Funding
- Australian Research Council ($223,000)
- Scheme
- Grant-Discovery Projects
- Administered By
- University of Tasmania
- Research Team
- Pybus C; Johnston A; Page AR
- Period
- 2006 - 2008
- Grant Reference
- DP0662856
- Funding
- University of Tasmania ($11,000)
- Scheme
- Grant-Institutional Research Scheme
- Administered By
- University of Tasmania
- Research Team
- Page AR
- Year
- 2004
Research Supervision
Anthony supervises research theses in colonial Tasmanian and eighteenth-century British history.
Current
3
Completed
8
Current
| Degree | Title | Commenced |
|---|---|---|
| PhD | John Wilkes and War: Popular politics, empire and identity in Britain, c. 1756-1787 | 2015 |
| PhD | Called from the Plough: The radical journalism of Gilbert Robertson, 1832-1844 | 2021 |
| PhD | The women of the Flinders Ranges, 1850-1890 | 2022 |
Completed
| Degree | Title | Completed |
|---|---|---|
| PhD | The 'Demon of Discord' and 'Most Perfect Harmony': Command cooperation on British amphibious operations 1739-62 Candidate: Gregory Ian Buchanan | 2022 |
| PhD | Andrew Mitchell, 'New Diplomatic History', and Cultural Networks in Britain and Europe Candidate: David Barry Taylor | 2019 |
| PhD | The Junior British Army Officer: Experience and identity, 1793-1815 Candidate: David Lachlan Huf | 2017 |
| PhD | Mauritius Caught in the Web of Empire: The legal system, crime punishment and labour 18251845 Candidate: Eilin Friis Hordvik | 2016 |
| Masters | "Thick, Dark Strokes of Romantic Gloom and Terror": William Charles Piguenit's Tasmanian Wilderness Candidate: Carl Lawrence Gavan | 2013 |
| PhD | Flora Tasmaniae: Tasmanian Naturalists and Imperial Botany, 1829-1860 Candidate: Eleanor Catherine Cave | 2012 |
| PhD | Bleeding, Blistering and Observations of the Bowel: A Comparative Analysis of Hospital Treatment in the Mid-Nineteenth Century Candidate: Amy Ruth Kamphuis | 2011 |
| PhD | "A Model Among Towns?": A Study of Progressivism in Launceston during the Interwar Period Candidate: Colin Woollcott Mallett | 2011 |