Curated category
20th-century English historians
- George OrwellGeorge Orwell did not exist on any birth certificate. The man behind the name was Eric Arthur Blair, born on the 25th of June 1903 in Motihari, in the Bengal…
- John Lynch (historian)John Lynch was born on the 11th of January 1927 in Boldon, a small town in County Durham, in the north of England. By the time he died on the 4th of April…
- Antony BeevorAntony Beevor was born in Kensington, London, on the 14th of December 1946, into a family with writing in its blood going back generations.
- Joan RobinsonJoan Robinson coined a word that the United States Supreme Court would still be using nearly nine decades after she invented it.
- David AttenboroughDavid Attenborough turned 100 years old on the 8th of May 2026, and the Royal Albert Hall filled with singers, filmmakers, composers, and royalty to mark the…
- H. F. M. PrescottH. F. M. Prescott lived quietly in the small Oxfordshire town of Charlbury for many years, with her dogs for company, in a house that gave no hint of the…
- Geoffrey EltonGeoffrey Elton arrived in Britain in February 1939 as a Jewish refugee from Czechoslovakia, a teenage boy named Gottfried Rudolf Otto Ehrenberg.
- Ronald CoaseRonald Harry Coase was born on the 29th of December 1910 in Willesden, a suburb of London, and he would live to the age of 102 - long enough to see ideas he…
- T. D. KendrickThomas Downing Kendrick entered the world on the 1st of April 1895 in Handsworth, a suburb of Birmingham. His father Thomas H.
- Jeremy Black (historian)Jeremy Black was born on the 30th of October 1955. He would go on to publish more history books than most scholars manage to read in a lifetime.
- Alison WeirAlison Weir was fourteen years old when a paperback novel about Catherine of Aragon changed the course of her life. She describes the book, Lozania Prole's…
- John KeeganJohn Keegan spent 26 years teaching war to men who would fight it, yet he himself never fired a shot in anger. Born in Clapham, London, on the 15th of May…
- Eric ChristiansenEric Christiansen was born on the 15th of September 1937 and died on the 31st of October 2016. By the end of his life, he was a fellow emeritus of New…
- Correlli BarnettCorrelli Barnett was born on the 28th of June 1927 in Norbury, in the County Borough of Croydon, into a Britain that still considered itself a great power.
- Roy PorterRoy Porter died on the 3rd of March 2002 while cycling, five months into a retirement he had barely started. He had moved to St Leonards-on-Sea with plans to…