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Antonia Fraser
Antonia Fraser was born in 1932, the eldest of eight children of Frank and Elizabeth Pakenham. She was brought up in North Oxford (her father was a don at Christ Church) but in her youth both her parents were ...
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Ian Kershaw
Ian Kershaw was born in Oldham, Lancashire, in 1943, and educated at St Bede’s College, Manchester; the University of Liverpool (BA, First Class Honours in History, 1965), and Merton College, Oxford (D.Phil., ...
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Lyndal Roper
Lyndal Roper grew up in Melbourne, Australia, and graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1977. Immediately after, she went to Germany on a German Academic Exchange Award, where she studied at the Univer...
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Peter Stansky
Peter Stansky is the Frances and Charles Field Professor of History, Emeritus at Stanford University. He was born in New York City in 1932 and educated at Yale College, King’s College, Cambridge, and Harvard U...
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Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Felipe Fernández-Armesto was born in London in 1950, of Anglo-Spanish parentage, and attended school in England. He was a Libre-oyente (non-examination student) at the University of Salamanca, and an undergraduat...
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Linda Colley
Linda Colley graduated from Bristol University with First Class Honours in history in 1972 and completed her PhD at Cambridge University five years later. The first female Fellow of Christ’s College, Cambridge...
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Richard J. Evans
Richard J. Evans was born in Woodford, Essex, in 1947. He was educated at Forest School, Walthamstow, London, and read Modern History at Jesus College, Oxford, graduating with First Class Honours in 1969 and w...
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Simon Schama
Simon Schama studied history at Cambridge University where, from 1966 to 1976, he was Fellow of Christ’s College. From 1976 to 1980 he was Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at Brasenose College, Oxford. From ...
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Eric Hobsbawm
Eric Hobsbawm had his elementary education in Vienna, his secondary education in four schools in Vienna, Berlin and London, where he attended Marylebone Grammar School, winning a scholarship to King’s College,...
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Laurence Rees
Laurence is Creative Director of BBC Television History programmes and was also, for a number of years, editor of Timewatch, the BBC’s Historical Documentary strand (the equivalent in Britain to American Experien...
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Theodore Zeldin
Theodore Zeldin was born in 1933, and graduated from London University in Philosophy, Latin and History, and from Oxford in Modern History. He then embarked on a doctorate at the newly founded St Antony’s Coll...
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Norman Davies
Norman Davies was born in Lancashire and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was much influenced and encouraged by A.J.P. Taylor. Davies travelled extensively in his 20s, settling eventually in Krak...
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Eric Foner
Eric Foner was born in New York in 1943. He was educated at Columbia and Oxford Universities and did his PhD at Columbia under the supervision of Richard Hofstadter. Foner is currently DeWitt Clinton Professor...
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Geoffrey Hosking
Geoffrey Hosking taught Russian/Soviet politics and history at the University of Essex from 1966 to 1984, though with two years off, teaching at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1971–72 and at the Unive...
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David Starkey
David Starkey is Bye Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. He is a winner of the W.H. Smith Prize for Biography (for Elizabeth) and the Norton Medlicott Medal for Service to History presented by the Historica...
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Roy Foster
R.F. (Roy) Foster holds the only endowed chair of Irish History in Britain. He was born in Waterford, Ireland, in 1949 and educated in both Ireland and the United States. A graduate of Trinity College, Dublin,...
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Christopher Dyer
Christopher Dyer’s father was a builder’s foreman and his mother a primary schoolteacher. He was born in 1944 near Stratford-upon-Avon, and was educated at King Edward VI school in that town (1955–62), and wen...
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Natalie Zemon Davis
Natalie Zemon Davis was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1928 and after high school years at Kingswood School Cranbrook, attended Smith College for her BA (1949). There she did her Senior thesis on the rationalist...
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Lisa Jardine
Lisa Jardine CBE is Director of the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s ‘Centre for Editing Lives and Letters’, and Centenary Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. She is a F...