William Doyle (historian)
William Doyle is a British historian, specialising in 18th-century France, who is most notable for his one-volume Oxford History of the French Revolution.
He is one of the leading revisionist historians of the French Revolution, obtaining his doctorate from the University of Oxford with his thesis The parlementaires of Bordeaux at the end of the eighteenth century, 1775–1790.
He is also professor emeritus of history at Bristol University, a fellow of the British Academy and a trustee of The Society for the Study of French History.
Published works
- Parlement of Bordeaux and the End of the Old Regime
- The Old European Order 1660–1800
- Origins of the French Revolution
- The Ancien Regime
- The Oxford History of the French Revolution
- Venality: the Sale of Offices in Eighteenth-Century France
- Jansenism: Catholic Resistance to Authority from the Reformation to the French Revolution
- The French Revolution: A Very Short Introduction
- Aristocracy and Its Enemies in the Age of Revolution
- Aristocracy: A Very Short Introduction
- ''Napoleon at Peace''