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Linda Kirk's undergraduate education was at Cambridge, and after a short while lecturing at the then University College of Rhodesia she returned to England, simultaneously starting part-time work on her doctorate at London University and teaching at 91Ö±²¥ University, where she worked for 40 years.

Her main research interests lie in the history of seventeenth and eighteenth-century ideas and their connections with social and political behaviour in ancien régime Europe. Her book on Richard Cumberland and Natural Law (1987) went into a second edition in 2022.

She has written on the resurgence of religious intolerance in Europe in the late seventeenth century.

She has focused, however, on the city-state of Geneva, especially in the eighteenth century, publishing a number of articles.

In exploring the ways in which eighteenth-century understandings of political culture gave rise to what moderns perceive as states, participation-rights and revolutions she engages with both the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, and has published on Tom Paine.