Republican learning

Argues that far from being a marginal and insignificant figure, Toland counted queens, princes and government ministers as his friends and political associates

Justin Champion is Professor of History at Royal Holloway, University of London

'This is a significant contribution based on extensive new research, and is likely to be the standard account of Toland for many years to come.' Professor David Wootton, Queen Mary, University of London 'Justin Champion's Republican Learning ... manages to be both a scholarly and very readable account of the life and thought of the 17th-18th-century freethinker.' Greg Neil, Editor, BBC History Magazine