Tom Tyson| Director of Studies for the History Programme

Dr Tom Tyson is a PhD at the University of Cambridge and incoming Doctoral Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, London.  

Born in London, Tom grew up in Fremantle Western Australia, and went to high school at John Curtin College of the Arts. He moved to the UK in 2012 to study History at the University of Cambridge (Trinity Hall), graduating with a First in 2015.  He stayed on in Cambridge for another year to complete an MPhil in Early Modern History.  

Tom is passionate about teaching, having taught History and Politics A-Level for a number of years at Fine Arts College, Hampstead, and since starting his doctorate, he has lectured and led seminars for undergraduates at Cambridge.  He is also running an evening course for adults in the Autumn at Fine Arts College entitled “Subversives and Sinners:  An Alternative History of Britain from the Renaissance to the Romantic”.  

Tom has also won a number of academic awards, including the Dr Lightfoot Prize for Ecclesiastical History.  His doctoral research is on the history of Gypsies in early modern Scotland, with a focus on their persecution and toleration in the seventeenth century.