Nationality British Role Historian | Name Charles Freeman Occupation Author, Historian | |
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Alma mater Trinity College, Cambridge
School of Oriental and African Studies
University of East Anglia Books Egypt - Greece - and Rome, The Greek Achievement: The Foun, Holy Bones - Holy Dust, The Closing of the Weste, A New History of Early Chri | ||
Education University of Cambridge | ||
Charles P. Freeman is a scholar and freelance historian specialising in the history of ancient Greece and Rome. He is the author of numerous books on the ancient world including The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason. He has taught courses on ancient history in Cambridge's Adult Education program and is Historical Consultant to the Blue Guides. He also leads cultural study tours to Italy, Greece, and Turkey. In 2003, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He lives in Suffolk, England.
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Early life and education
From an early age Freeman was passionate about history and spent his school holidays helping on archeological digs run by Ipswich Museum. He studied law at Trinity College, Cambridge, and after graduation spent a year teaching in Sudan.
He also holds a master's degree in African history and politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London and an additional master's degree in applied research in education from the University of East Anglia.
In 1978 he was appointed head of history at St. Clare's, Oxford, an international sixth form college and spent ten years there. He spent thirty years in total as a teacher and examiner/senior examiner with the International Baccalaureate. From 1988 he has worked full-time as a professional freelance historian. A biography at Yale University Press provides further details.
Personal life
Charles Freeman lives in Suffolk near Framlingham, England, with his second wife Lydia; between them they have seven children. Lydia is a joint Master of the Easton Harriers.