Henk te Velde is a Professor of History and the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at Leiden University. He has published about the history of nationalism, liberalism, eadership styles and political traditions in the Netherlands, and of parliamentary and political rhetoric in Britain and France. He recently co-edited Continuities in an Age of Revolutionary Change: Political Practices in Europe and the Americas, c. 1750–1850 (Palgrave Macmillan 2022).