About Us

Welcome to the Cambridge Centre for Political Thought.

Through the links on this site you will find information on a wide range of activities in the history of political thought, political theory, and intellectual history at the University of Cambridge and beyond. These include weekly seminars, individual lectures and conferences, and our graduate and undergraduate courses. You can also access the websites of the Faculty of History and the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS).

Cambridge is a world-leading centre for the study of the history of political thought. Many of the subject’s finest practitioners have studied and taught here. Among them are John Dunn, J.G.A Pocock, Quentin Skinner, Gareth Stedman Jones, Richard Tuck and Melissa Lane. 

Through their research and teaching, the present generation of Cambridge scholars takes the subject forward in new directions, reinforced by a large and lively community of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.

Cambridge University Press generously supports the Centre for Political Thought, and the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) and the Faculty of History administer it under their aegis.