David Cannadine
FRSA | |
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President of the British Academy | |
In office 2017–2021 | |
Preceded by | Lord Stern of Brentford |
Succeeded by | Julia Black |
Personal details | |
Born | David Nicholas Cannadine 7 September 1950 Birmingham, England |
Spouse | |
Residence(s) | London, England Connecticut |
Alma mater | |
Awards | FRHistS |
Sir David Nicholas Cannadine
Education and early career
David Nicholas Cannadine was born in
Subsequent career
Cannadine was appointed to the professorial chair of history at
Cannadine has held many other visitorial appointments: at the
Works
Cannadine's books include The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy (1990); G. M. Trevelyan: A Life in History (1992); Class in Britain (1998); Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire (2001); Mellon: An American Life (2006); The Thirty Year Rule (jointly, 2009); The Right Kind of History (jointly, 2011); and The Undivided Past: Humanity Beyond our Differences (2013). His most recent publications are Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800–1906 (2018), published for the Penguin History of Britain series, as well as two edited volumes on Westminster Abbey and on Anthony Blunt.[10][11]
Cannadine has delivered many public lectures including the Raleigh Lecture at the British Academy (1997), the Carnochan Lecture at
Public work
Cannadine has served as a vice-president of the
Cannadine is also widely known as a commentator on current events, in newspapers, on the radio and on television; he has been a long-standing contributor to A Point of View, broadcast on
Currently, Cannadine serves as a member of the
Honours and distinctions
Cannadine has been elected a Fellow of the
Cannadine holds
He was knighted for "services to scholarship" in 2009.[21]
More recently, in April 2018 Cannadine was elected an international honorary member of the
Personal life
Cannadine is married to fellow historian Linda Colley.[23]
Publications
- Lords and Landlords: The Aristocracy and the Towns, 1774–1967 (1980)
- Patricians, Power and Politics in Nineteenth-century Towns (1982) (editor)
- 'Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat': Winston Churchill's Famous Speeches (1989) (editor)
- The Pleasures of the Past (1989)
- The First Modern Society: Essays in English History in Honour of Lawrence Stone (1989) (editor) (with A.L. Beier and James Rosenheim)
- 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)
- What Is History Now? (2002) (editor)
- History and the Media (2004) (editor)
- Churchill in the Twenty-First Century (2004) (editor) (with Roland Quinault)
- Admiral Lord Nelson: Context and Legacy (2005) (editor)
- Gunpowder Plots: A Celebration of 400 Years of Bonfire Night (jointly 2005)
- Trafalgar: A Battle and its Afterlife (2006) (editor)
- Mellon: An American Life (2006)
- National Portrait Gallery: A Brief History (2007)
- Empire, the Sea and Global History: Britain's Maritime World, c.1763–c.1840 (2007) (editor)
- Making History Now and Then: Discoveries, Controversies and Explorations (2008)
- History and Philanthropy: Past, Present and Future (2008) (editor) (with Jill Pellew)
- The Thirty Year Rule (jointly, 2009)
- The Right Kind of History: Teaching the Past in Twentieth-Century England (2011) (with Jenny Keating and Nicola Sheldon)
- The Undivided Past: History Beyond Our Differences (2013)
- George V (Penguin Monarchs series) (2014)
- Heroic Chancellor: Bristol University(2015)
- Margaret Thatcher: A Life and Legacy (2017)
- Victorious Century: The United Kingdom, 1800–1906 (Penguin History of Britain) (2018)
- The Country House: Past, Present and Future (2018) (editor) (with Jeremy Musson)
- Why Collect Now? A Report on the State of Museums and of Collecting (2019)
- Westminster Abbey: A Church in History (2019) (editor)
- A Question of Retribution?: The British Academy and the Matter of Anthony Blunt (2020) (editor)
Footnotes
- ^ "Princeton.edu". princeton.edu.
- ^ "Professor Sir David Nicholas Cannadine" (PDF). Princeton University. Retrieved 25 July 2010.
- ^ "Professor Sir David Cannadine PBA". The British Academy. Archived from the original on 18 September 2020. Retrieved 18 September 2020.
- ^ "David Cannadine". Penguin Random House.
- ^ Kelly Boyd, Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing (1999), p. 926.
- ^ "Professor Sir David Nicholas Cannadine". Christ's College, Cambridge.
- ^ "Public Administration - Minutes of Evidence". UK Parliament.
- ^ "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". University of Oxford.
- ^ Cannadine, David (2018). Pellew, Jill; Goldman, Lawrence (eds.). Introduction. Dethroning historical reputations: universities, museums and the commemoration of benefactors: University of London Press. p. 4.
- ^ Bridge, Mark. "Historian who brought Anthony Blunt to book". The Times.
- ^ Chartres, Lord. "Westminster Abbey: A church in history, edited by David Cannadine". Church Times.
- ^ www.number10.gov.uk Archived 16 June 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Churchill's Other Lives". BBC.
- ^ "A rewrite of the history syllabus is long overdue". The Guardian. 14 June 2020.
- ^ Guttenplan, D.D. (28 November 2011). "History Proving a Touchy Subject in Britain". The New York Times.
- ^ Cannadine, David. "The Once and Future Princess". The New York Review of Books.
- ^ "British Academy President Sir David Cannadine receives honorary degree from UoL". The British Academy.
- ^ Comerford, Ruth. "'Global theme' for Wolfson History Prize shortlist". The Bookseller.
- ^ "The Medlicott Medal". The History Association. 18 April 2016.
- ^ "The Blenheim Award". The International Churchill Society. 13 February 2009.
- ^ "No. 58929". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2008. p. 1.
- ^ "British Academy President and Fellows elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences | British Academy". British Academy. Retrieved 30 June 2018.
- ^ Even history holds no solace
External links
- Official webpage
- Short biography
- Interview
- Directory of Fellows of the British Academy
- Debrett's People of Today
- "Embracing Complexity - A Conversation with David Cannadine" Archived 12 October 2019 at the Wayback Machine, Ideas Roadshow, 2015
- "David Cannadine: interview", The Telegraph, 2005
- Appearances on C-SPAN