fiction.wikisort.org - WriterPiers Brendon FRSL (born 21 December 1940) is a British historian and writer, known for historical and biographical works. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he read history. He received a Ph.D. degree for his thesis, Hurrell Froude and the Oxford Movement, which was published, with much modification, in 1974.
British writer
Piers Brendon
Ph.D., FRSL |
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Born | (1940-12-21) 21 December 1940 (age 81)
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Education | Shrewsbury School |
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Alma mater | Magdalene College, Cambridge |
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Occupation | Historian and writer |
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Employer(s) | Cambridge School of Art, Churchill College, Cambridge |
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From 1965 to 1978, he was lecturer in history, then principal lecturer and head of department, at what is now Anglia Ruskin University. Since 1979, he has worked as a freelance writer of books, journalism and for television.
In 1995, he became a fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge and was keeper of the Churchill Archives Centre from 1995 to 2001,[1] in succession to Correlli Barnett. Brendon was himself succeeded by Allen Packwood.[2]
Works
- Hurrell Froude and the Oxford Movement (1974)
- Hawker of Morwenstow - Portrait of a Victorian Eccentric (1975)
- A Quest of the Sangraal, Cornish Ballads & Other Poems (1975; Robert Stephen Hawker, editor)
- Eminent Edwardians (1979; ISBN 0-395-29195-X)
- The Life and Death of the Press Barons (1983)
- Winston Churchill: A Brief Life (1984)
- Ike - the Life and Times of Dwight D. Eisenhower (1986)
- Our Own Dear Queen (1986)
- Thomas Cook - 150 Years of Popular Tourism (1991)
- The Age of Reform 1820–1850 (1994)
- The Motoring Century: Story of the Royal Automobile Club (1997)
- The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s (2000; ISBN 0-375-70808-1)
- The Windsors - A Dynasty Revealed 1917–2000, with Phillip Whitehead (2000: ISBN 0712667970. Original 1994; ISBN 978-0340610138)
- The Decline and Fall of the British Empire. London: Jonathan Cape. 2007. ISBN 978-0-307-26829-7 – via Internet Archive.
- Eminent Elizabethans (2013, Penguin Books, ISBN 978-0-099-53263-7)
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- Trove (Australia)
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