Noel Malcolm

Noel Robert Malcolm FBA FRSL (born 26 December 1956) is a modern English historian, writer, and columnist.

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Life

Malcolm was educated at Eton College (where he was a King's Scholar) , read History at Peterhouse, Cambridge, wrote his doctorate dissertation at Trinity College, Cambridge, and was for a time Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

He is a former Foreign Editor of The Spectator, and columnist for the Daily Telegraph. He gave up journalism in 1995 to become a full time writer, becoming in 2002 a Senior Research Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He is a Fellow of the British Academy. He serves on the advisory board of the conservative magazine Standpoint. He is the general editor for the Clarendon edition of the complete works of Thomas Hobbes, and the editor of The Correspondence.

He now chairs the Board of Trustees at the Bosnian Institute, an organization on Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Works

Noel Malcolm is the author of Bosnia: A Short History (1994), Origins of English Nonsense (1997), Kosovo: A Short History (1998), Aspects of Hobbes (2002), and (with Jacqueline Stedall) John Pell (1611-1685) and His Correspondence with Sir Charles Cavendish: The Mental World of an Early Modern Mathematician (2005). He is the editor of The Correspondence of Thomas Hobbes (1994). He has also written George Enescu: His Life and Music (1990) (Toccata Press). He also wrote a pamphlet in 1991 titled Sense on Sovereignty, a discussion of the arguments about Britain's membership of the European Union published by the Centre for Policy Studies.

Articles by Noel Malcolm on Yugoslavia available online

In French

In Albanian

Reviews of books on Yugoslavia by Noel Malcolm

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