Andrew Roberts

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Andrew Roberts

Andrew Roberts (born on January 13, 1963) is a conservative UK historian.

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[edit] Early life

Roberts attended Cranleigh School from where he was expelled for such pranks as statue painting, chapel roof climbing, cling-filming the lavatories and rearranging the furniture in the quad [1]. However this didn't hold him back and he took a first in modern history at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge where he is also an honorary senior scholar. While there he was Chairman of the Cambridge University Conservative Association and also gained some minor notoriety for driving one of the very few Sinclair C5s sold in the UK. In addition he holds an honorary doctorate from Westminster College, Missouri, the venue of the Iron Curtain speech made by Winston Churchill in 1946.

[edit] Career

He worked between 1985-87 as a corporate broker at Robert Fleming Securities Limited before becoming a freelance journalist and book reviewer. His biography of Lord Salisbury won him the Wolfson History Prize and the James Stern silver pen award for non-fiction. In 2001 he became a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Society of Arts. He appears as a regular commentator on British television and radio programmes and contributes to a range of UK publications including The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator.

Roberts was criticised by Daphne Guinness[2] and Lord Moyne [3] in the letters columns of The Daily Telegraph (16 August 2003) over his comments in the same paper on the 13th.[4], about Moyne's mother, Diana Mitford, who had just died. He responded to the criticism on 18th August [5] which in turn caused Daphne Guinness to reply on 21st August [6].

He is also known to American audiences for his broadcasts on NBC during the funerals of Princess Diana and Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother and the marriage of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles. In 2003 he presented a critically acclaimed four-part history series on BBC2 about the secrets of leadership which looked at the different leadership styles of Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, John F Kennedy and Martin Luther King. His A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900, a sequel to the four volume work of Winston Churchill, was published in September 2006.

During the invasion of Iraq he emerged as one of the leading UK proponents of the war, arguing on BBC Newsnight that the regime posed as great a threat as the Nazis and that failure to take military action would be tantamount to appeasement.

He is divorced from his first wife with whom he had two children, Henry and Cassia. Living near Harrods in Knightsbridge, he was involved with the biographer Leonie Frieda, but has recently separated from her and is engaged to Susan Gilchrist.

[edit] Bibliography

  • The Holy Fox : A Biography Of Lord Halifax, London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1991 ISBN 0-297-81133-9.
  • Eminent Churchillians, London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1994 ISBN 0-297-81247-5.
  • The Aachen Memorandum, London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1995 ISBN 0-297-81619-5.
  • "Hitler's England What if Germany had invaded Britain in May 1940" pages 281-320 from Virtual History edited by Niall Ferguson, New York: Basic Books, 1997, 1999, ISBN 0-330-35132-X.
  • Salisbury: Victorian Titan (1999). ISBN 0-297-81713-2.
  • The House Of Windsor, Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 2000, ISBN 0-520-22803-0.
  • Napoleon and Wellington : The Battle Of Waterloo-- And The Great Commanders Who Fought It, New York : Simon & Schuster, 2001, ISBN 0-297-64607-9.
  • Hitler and Churchill: Secrets of Leadership (2003). ISBN 0-297-84330-3.
  • What Might Have Been (2004). ISBN 0-297-84877-1.
  • Waterloo : June 18, 1815 : The Battle For Modern Europe, New York : HarperCollins, 2005, ISBN 0-06-008866-4.
  • A History of the English Speaking Peoples since 1900 (2006), ISBN 0-297-85076-8

[edit] External links

  http://www.wistory.org/tellers/st_gilcs.htm (Official website of Andrew's fiance Susan Gilchrist)

[edit] References

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