William Doyle (historian)
William Doyle, FBA is a British historian, specialising in 18th-century France, who is most notable for his one-volume Oxford History of the French Revolution.
He is one of the leading revisionist historians of the French Revolution, obtaining his doctorate from the University of Oxford with a thesis entitled The parlementaires of Bordeaux at the end of the eighteenth century, 1775-1790.
He is also professor emeritus of history at Bristol University, a fellow of the British Academy and a trustee of The Society for the Study of French History.
