David Andress

David Andress is Reader in Modern European History at the University of Portsmouth. He is the author of numerous works on the French Revolution, including French Society in Revolution, 1789-1799 (1999), Massacre at the Champ de Marsm> (2000) and The Terror (2005).



David Andress is Professor of Modern History at the University of Portsmouth, and one of Britain's finest interpreters of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His books include The French Revolution and the People, The Terror, 1789 and Cultural Dementia: How the West Has Lost Its History and Risks Losing Everything Else.