Andrew Thompson (historian)

Andrew Thompson
Born
Andrew Stuart Thompson

(1968-06-03) 3 June 1968
TitleProfessor of Global and Imperial History
Children2
Academic background
EducationLoughborough Grammar School
Alma materRegent's Park College, Oxford
Nuffield College, Oxford
ThesisThinking imperially?: Imperial pressure groups and the idea of Empire in late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain (1994)
Doctoral advisorJohn Darwin
Academic work
Institutions

Andrew Stuart Thompson CBE FRHistS (born 3 June 1968) is a British historian and academic. He specialises in modern British history, Imperialism, and the British Empire. Since September 2019, he has been Professor of Global and Imperial History at the University of Oxford and a Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. Thompson co-chairs the Global and Imperial History Centre. He previously taught at the University of Leeds and the University of Exeter. He was Executive Chair of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) from 2018 to 2020, having previously been its chief executive on a part-time basis.