Richard Whatmore (born January 19, 1968) is a Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews.^[1] His research topics includes intellectual history.^[2]

He is the editor-in-chief of History of European Ideas.^[3]

His books include:

• The End of Enlightenment: Empire, Commerce, Crisis (Penguin Books Ltd, 2023)
• The History of Political Thought: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2022)
• Terrorists, Anarchists, And Republicans: The Genevans And The Irish In Time Of Revolution (Princeton University Press, 2019)
• What is Intellectual History? (Polity, 2015)
• Against War and Empire (Yale University Press, 2012)^[4]
• Republicanism and the French Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2000)