Author: Roger Macdonald
Bio: Oxford historian (M.A. Hertford College) Roger Macdonald is a member of the University s advisory board on development for the Humanities. His media career began in Fleet Street on the Daily Mail and The Times before he moved to the BBC as a producer and editor for more than twenty years. The Press Association (PA) won its largest ever contract for the provision of electronic news during his period as PA marketing and development director. His previous history book, about the real Man in the Iron Mask, was the central theme of a documentary in The Legend Detectives series made for the Discovery Channel.