Piers Brendon Ph.D.,
FRSL | |
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Born | |
Education | Shrewsbury School |
Alma mater | Magdalene College, Cambridge |
Occupation(s) | Historian and writer |
Employer(s) | Cambridge School of Art, Churchill College, Cambridge |
Piers 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.[ citation needed]
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.[ citation needed]
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]