Ruth Scurr

I’m a lecturer at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge.

My research is on the history of political thought in the 18th century. I’m particularly interested in the French Revolution and I’m a biographer.

Publications

Scurr, R. (2021). Napoleon: A Life in Gardens and Shadows. Chatto & Windus.
Scurr, R. (2014). Unfreedom and the Republican Tradition in the French Revolution. In C. Dahl & T. A. Nexö (Eds.), To Be Unfree: Republicanism and Unfreedom in History, Literature, and Philosophy (pp. 93–115). Political Science.
Scurr, R. (2011). Who Were the Sans-Culottes? Modern Intellectual History, 8(2), 447–455.
Scurr, R. (2007). Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution. Vintage.

John Aubrey: My Own Life

Napoleon: A Life in Gardens and Shadows

Fatal Purity: Robespierre and the French Revolution