Peter Stansky

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Name Peter Stansky		Role historian

Education Harvard University (1961), Yale College, King's College, Cambridge Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada Nominations National Book Award for Biography Books The First Day of the Blitz, Julian Bell: From Bloomsb, The unknown Orwell, Sassoon: The Worlds of Philip a, On or About Decembe Born 18 January 1932 (age 89 years), New York, New York, United States

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Peter David Lyman Stansky (born January 18, 1932) is an American historian specializing in modern British history.

Ambitions and Strategies: The Struggle for the Leadership of the Liberal Party in the 1890s (1964)

England Since 1867: Continuity and Change (1973)

Gladstone: A Progress in Politics (1979)

William Morris (1983)

Redesigning the World, William Morris, the 1880s, and the Arts and Crafts (1985)

On or About December 1910: Early Bloomsbury and its Intimate World (1996)

Another Book That Never Was (1998)

From William Morris to Sergeant Pepper (1999) includes bibliography of writings 1954-1998

Sassoon: The Worlds of Philip and Sybil (2003)

Journey to the Frontier: Julian Bell and John Cornford: Their lives and the 1930s, with William Abrahams (1966)

The Unknown Orwell, with William Abrahams (1972)

Orwell: The Transformation, with William Abrahams (1979)

London's Burning, with William Abrahams (1994)

The Left and War: The British Labour Party and the First World War, Editor (1969)

John Morley Nineteenth Century Essays, Editor (1970)

Winston Churchill: A Profile, Editor (1973)

The Victorian Revolution, Editor (1973)

On Nineteen Eighty-Four, Editor (1983)

The Aesthetic Movement and the Art and Crafts Movement, Editor, with Rodney Shewan. A reprint series of 73 volumes (1976, 1979)

Conference on British Studies Biographical series, Editor, 6 vols.(1968-1974)

Modern British History Series, Editor, 18 vol. with Leslie Hume (1982)

Modern European History Series, Editor, 47 vols. (1987-1992)

The First Day of the Blitz (2007)

Julian Bell: From Bloomsbury to the Spanish Civil War (2012)

Edward Upward: Art and Life (2016)

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