David Cannadine
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Sir David Nicholas Cannadine, FBA (born 1950) is a British historian, known for a number of books, including The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy and Ornamentalism, and as a commentator and broadcaster on British public life, especially the British monarchy. He also serves as the general editor of the Penguin History of Europe series.
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[edit] Life
He was born in Birmingham and attended King Edward VI Five Ways school within the city. He read history at Clare College, Cambridge, and wrote a doctorate on the history of the development of the Calthorpe Estate, Edgbaston, Birmingham while at St John's College, Oxford, supervised by Peter Mathias, also spending time at Princeton University. In 1975 he became a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, and a University Lecturer. While never a student of J. H. Plumb at Christ's, Cannadine was influenced by him.[1]
From 1992 he was Moore Collegiate Professor of History at Columbia University.[2] In 1998 he became director of the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, and in 2003 Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Professor of British History there.
He married the historian Linda Colley in 1982.[2][3]
Since 2005 he has been Chair of the National Portrait Gallery.[4] He gave the first annual Jubilee lecture at King Edward VI Five Ways school, which he had attended. Cannadine was knighted in the 2009 New Year Honours for services to education.[5]
[edit] Works
- Lords and Landlords; the aristocracy and the towns, 1774-1967 (1980)
- Patricians, Power and Politics in nineteenth-century Towns (1982) (editor)
- The Pleasures of the Past (1991)
- G.M. Trevelyan: A Life in History (1992)
- Aspects of Aristocracy: Grandeur and Decline in Modern Britain (1994)
- The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy (1996)
- The Rise and Fall of Class in Britain (1998)
- History in Our Time (1998)
- Ornamentalism: How the British saw their Empire (2001)
- In Churchill's Shadow: Confronting the Past in Modern Britain (2002)
- What Is History Now? (2002) (editor)
- Admiral Lord Nelson: Context and Legacy (2005) (editor)
- Mellon: An American Life (2006)
- Empire, The Sea and Global History: Britain's Maritime World 1763-1833 (2007)(editor)
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Kelly Boyd, Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing (1999), p. 926.
- ^ a b http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/david-cannadine-home-and-colonial-stories-682003.html
- ^ http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/linda-colley-i-dont-even-know-if-im-british-any-more-643047.html
- ^ http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page8840
- ^ London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 58929, p. 1, 31 December 2008.
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