Name Richard Vinen | ||
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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
- The Legacy of Margaret Thatcher Session I The Woman Who Changed Politics Part 1
- Selected publications
- References
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.