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David Cannadine Sir David Cannadine ( born 1950 ) is a British author and historian who specialises in modern history , Britain and the history of business and philanthropy . He is currently the Dodge Professor of History at Princeton University , a Visiting Professor of History at Oxford University , and the editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . He has been the President of the British Academy since 2017 , the UKs national academy for the humanities and social sciences . He also serves as the Chairman of the Trustees of the National Portrait Gallery in London and Vice-Chair of the Editorial Board of Past & Present . Cannadine is married to fellow historian Linda Colley . Education and early career . David Cannadine was born in Birmingham on 7 September 1950 and attended King Edward VI Five Ways School . He was educated at Clare College , Cambridge , where he took a double first in history , at St Johns College , Oxford , where he completed his DPhil , and at Princeton University where he was a Jane Eliza Procter Visiting Fellow . After completing his graduate work , he returned to Cambridge , where he was a research fellow at St Johns College , and was then elected a Fellow of Christs College and appointed to a university lectureship in history . Subsequent career . Cannadine was appointed to the professorial chair of history at Columbia University in 1988 , returning to Britain ten years later as director of the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London and , subsequently , as Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Professor of British History . In 2008 he joined the History Department of Princeton University and in 2014 he was appointed Editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and also to a visiting professorship at the University of Oxford . Cannadine has held many other visitorial appointments : at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton ( twice ) , at Birkbeck College , London , at the Whitney Humanities Center , Yale , at ANU Canberra , at the NHC North Carolina , at the Huntington Library and at New York University Stern School of Business . He is the General Editor of the Penguin History of Britain and the Penguin History of Europe . He is currently completing a volume on the history of the Ford Foundation . Works . Cannadines 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 ) ; ( 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 . Cannadine has delivered many public lectures including the Raleigh Lecture at the British Academy ( 1997 ) , the Carnochan Lecture at Stanford University ( 2001 ) , the Linbury Lecture at the National Gallery ( 2002 ) , the T . S . Eliot Lecture at Washington University , St Louis ( 2003 ) , the George Macaulay Trevelyan Lectures at the University of Cambridge ( 2007 ) , the Inaugural Lecture for the Centre for British Studies at Humboldt University , Berlin ( 2010 ) , the Crosby Kemper Lecture at Westminster College , Fulton , Missouri , the Jon Sigurosson Lecture at the University of Iceland ( 2012 ) , the Haaga Lecture at the Huntington Library ( 2012 ) , the Creighton Lecture at the University of Toronto ( 2013 ) , the Robb Lectures at the University of Auckland , New Zealand ( 2015 ) , the Wolfson Anniversary Lecture at the University of Glasgow ( 2015 ) , the Oxford University Press Centenary Lecture ( 2017 ) and the Founders Lecture at St John’s College , Oxford ( 2019 ) . Public work . Cannadine has served as a Vice-President of the Royal Historical Society ( 1998–2002 ) and as a member of the Advisory Council , Public Record Office , subsequently National Archives ( 1999–2004 ) ; as a Trustee and Vice-Chairman of the Kennedy Memorial Trust ( 1999–2010 ) ; as a Trustee , Vice-Chair and Chair of the National Portrait Gallery ( 2000–12 ) ; as a Commissioner of English Heritage ( 2001–09 ) and as Chairman of its Blue Plaques Panel ( 2006–13 ) ; as a member of the Royal Mint Advisory Committee ( 2004–14 ) ; and as Chair of Churchill 2015 ( 2013–15 ) . 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 BBC Radio 4 , as the successor to Alastair Cookes Letter from America ; and he has also written and presented a series of programmes on Churchills Other Lives . He has been active in attempts to reform and improve the history curriculum in the United Kingdom . He also often contributes to contemporary discussions on the present-day British monarchy . Currently , Cannadine serves as a member of the Bank of England Banknote Character Advisory Committee ; he is a Trustee of the Rothschild Archive , the Gordon Brown Archive and Gladstones Library ; and of the Library of Birmingham Development Trust , the Royal Academy Trust , Historic Royal Palaces and the Wolfson Foundation . He is also 168th President of The Birmingham & Midland Institute , a Vice-President of the Victorian Society , Vice-Chairman of the Westminster Abbey Fabric Commission , and of the editorial board of Past & Present and President of the Friends of the Imperial War Museum . Honours and distinctions . Cannadine has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society ( 1981 ) , a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts ( 1998 ) , a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature ( 1999 ) , a Fellow of the British Academy ( 1999 ) , and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries ( 2005 ) . He has been awarded the Lionel Trilling Prize ( 1991 ) and the Deans Distinguished Award in the Humanities ( 1996 ) by Columbia University , the Dickinson Medal by the Newcomen Society ( 2003 ) , the Minerva Medal of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow ( 2013 ) , the Norton Medlicott Medal of the Historical Association ( 2013 ) , and the Blenheim Award of the International Churchill Society ( 2016 ) . Cannadine holds honorary degrees from the London South Bank University ( 2001 ) , the University of East Anglia ( 2001 ) , the University of Birmingham ( 2002 ) , the University of Worcester ( 2011 ) , Open University ( 2016 ) , the University of London ( 2017 ) , the University of Leicester ( 2019 ) and Queens University , Belfast ( 2020 ) . He is also an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Historical Research ( 2005 ) , Christs College , Cambridge ( 2005 ) , the Historical Association ( 2011 ) , and Clare College , Cambridge ( 2012 ) and an Honorary Churchill Fellow of Westminster College , Fulton , Missouri ( 2012 ) . He was knighted for services to scholarship in 2009 . More recently , in April 2018 Cannadine was elected an international honorary member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences . He was elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019 . 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 Churchills 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 ) - ( 2006 ) - Empire , the Sea and Global History : Britains Maritime World 1763–1833 ( 2007 ) ( editor ) - National Portrait Gallery : A Brief History ( 2007 ) - Empire , the Sea and Global History : Britain’s Maritime World , c.1763–1840 ( 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 : Winston Churchill and 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 ) External links . - Official webpage - Short biography - Interview - Directory of Fellows of the British Academy - Debretts People of Today - Embracing Complexity - A Conversation with David Cannadine , Ideas Roadshow , 2015 - David Cannadine : interview , The Telegraph , 2005