Raymond Postgate (1896–1971) was English social historian, journalist and author. He was the eldest son of the classical scholar and fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, John Percival Postgate. During WWI he was a conscientious objector and was jailed in 1916 for two weeks. After the war he started a journalist career and worked on the Daily Herald and Lansbury’s Weekly; between 1927 and 1928 he was an editor for Encyclopaedia Britannica. Despite his pacifist beliefs displayed during the WWI, he served in WWII with the Finchley Home Guard.
He was a prolific and lucid writer with wide interests encompassing topics from food and history to crime and mystery fiction.