Born: 7-Sep-1950
Birthplace: Birmingham, England

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Historian

Nationality: England
Executive summary: Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy

Wife: Linda Colley (historian, m. 1982)

    University: Clare College, Cambridge University
    University: St. John's College, Oxford University
    Teacher: Christ's College, Cambridge University
    Professor: Columbia University (1992-)

Author of books:
Lords and Landlords: The Aristocracy and the Towns, 1774-1967 (1980)
The Pleasures of the Past (1990)
The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy (1990)
G. M. Trevelyan: A Life in History (1992)
Aspects of Aristocracy: Grandeur and Decline in Modern Britain (1994)
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)
Admiral Lord Nelson: Context & Legacy (2005)
Trafalgar in History: A Battle and Its Afterlife (2006)

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