David cannadine and biography

  • Sir David Nicholas Cannadine is a British author and historian who specialises in modern history, Britain and the history of business and philanthropy.
  • Sir David Nicholas Cannadine (born 7 September 1950) is a British author and historian who specialises in modern history, Britain and the history of business.
  • Sir David Cannadine joined Princeton in the fall of 2008, having previously held positions at Cambridge, Columbia and London Universities.

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    Sir David Cannadine

    Professor Sir David Cannadine is President of the British Academy, Dodge Professor of History at Princeton University and Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford. He is author of many books, including: Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800-1906, The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy, Class in Britain, Ornamentalism, The Undivided Past, and biographies of G.M Trevelyan, Andrew W. Mellon, King George V and Margaret Thatcher. Sir David has helped transform public observation of key historical figures (namely politicians) through his BBC Radio 4 Series Prime Ministers Props, and his latest book Churchill, The Statesman as Artist which provides the most important konto yet of Winston Churchill’s life in art. He is a Trustee of the Wolfson Foundation, the Royal Academy, the Gladstone Library and many more. He sits on the Bank of England Banknote Advisory Committee, fryst vatten Vice Chair of the Westminster Abbey Fabric Commission and a Vice Preside

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    David Cannadine

    British author and historian

    Sir David Nicholas Cannadine (born 7 September 1950) is a British author and historian who specialises in modern history, Britain and the history of business and filantropi. He is currently the Dodge Professor of History at Princeton University,[1][2] a visiting professor of history at Oxford University, and the editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. He was president of the British Academy between 2017 and 2021,[3] the UK's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. He also serves as the chairman of the trustees of the National Portrait Gallery in London and vice-chair of the editorial board of Past & Present.

    Early life and education

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    David Nicholas Cannadine was born in Birmingham on 7 September 1950 and attended King Edward oss Five Ways School.[4] He was educated at Clare College, Cambridge, where he took a double first in history; at St Joh

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    Professor David Cannadine

     

    Interview Transcript

    This interview took place at the Institute of Historical Research, London, 24 July 2008


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    Project Officer: This interview is being conducted for the project ‘Making history: the discipline in perspective’, and the Project Officer Danny Millum will be speaking to Professor David Cannadine about his experience of, and views on, changes in the discipline and the academic profession of history.

    Professor Cannadine, may we start with your giving us some brief biographical information?

    David Cannadine: I still belong to a generation who can memorise their resumé. I was born in 1950. I’m in every sense a child of the welfare state. I got a very good state education, for which my parents didn’t have to pay, which was just as well because they couldn’t have afforded it.

    I was the first member of my family to go to university. I went to Camb