ABOUT THE AUTHOR

David Cannadine was born in Birmingham in 1950, and educated at the universities of Cambridge, Oxford and Princeton. From 1975 to 1988, he was a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, and University Lecturer in History and has taught at Columbia University, New York. He is now Director at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London. He is the editor and author of many acclaimed books, including The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy, which won the Lionel Trilling Prize and the Governors' Award; Aspects of Aristocracy; G. M. Trevelyan; The Pleasures of the Past; and History in Our Time. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Past and Present, and he is General Editor of the Penguin History of Britain series. He writes regularly for newspapers and reviews in London and New York, and is a well-known broadcaster on radio and television.

Aspects of Aristocracy, G. M. Trevelyan, The Pleasures of the Past and History in Our Time are all published in Penguin.