Tripti Joshi (Editor)

Richard Vinen

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Name
  
Richard Vinen


Richard Vinen wwwkclacukImportedImagesSchoolsArtshumsstaf

Books
  
The Unfree French, Thatcher's Britain: The Politics a, A history in fragments, National Service: A Generatio, Bourgeois politics in France - 1

The Legacy of Margaret Thatcher (Session I: The Woman Who Changed Politics) Part 1


Richard Charles Vinen is a British historian and academic who holds a professorship at King's College London. Vinen is a specialist in 20th-century European history, particularly of Britain and France.

Contents

Richard Vinen Thatchers Britain Book by Richard Vinen Official Publisher Page

Vinen was born in Birmingham and lived on a road in the Bourneville Estate. His father was a professor of physics. He attended Trinity College, Cambridge. Later he moved to London where he and his wife lived in a succession of "amusingly louche" locations early in his career. He has written that "the Serious Crime Squad once installed a camera in our bedroom so that they could keep an eye on one of our neighbours." His first academic post was at Queen Mary College (now Queen Mary University of London) and he joined King's in 1991.

Vinen's book National Service: Conscription in Britain, 1945–1963 (2014) received generally positive reviews. On 13 May 2015, he was presented with a Wolfson History Prize and Templer Medal for it.

Selected publications

  • The Politics of French Business: 1936-1945. Cambridge University Press. 1991. ISBN 0521404401. OCLC 24793485. 
  • Bourgeois Politics in France, 1945–1951. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. ISBN 0521474515
  • France 1934–1970. London, Macmillan, 1996.
  • A History in Fragments, Europe in the Twentieth Century. Little Brown, 2000. (also published in Spanish and Italian)
  • The Unfree French: Life under Occupation. London: Penguin, 2006. ISBN 0300121326
  • Thatcher's Britain. Simon & Schuster, 2009. ISBN 9781847371751
  • National Service: Conscription in Britain 1945–1963. Allen Lane, 2014. ISBN 184614387X

    • References

    Richard Vinen Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA