Noel Malcolm

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Noel Robert Malcolm (born December 26, 1956 in London ) is an English political journalist and historian. Malcolm, a King's graduate of Eton College, studied history in Cambridge and received a PhD in history from Trinity College, Cambridge. Since 2002 he has been a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. He was knighted in the 2014 New Year Awards for Services to Science, Journalism and European History .

Live and act

Malcolm attended Eton College near Windsor and studied history in Cambridge from 1974 to 1978. His Dr. degree in history he received in 1981 while studying at Trinity College Cambridge. He was a member and lecturer at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge before becoming a political and foreign policy journalist with The Spectator and The Daily Telegraph . In 1995, Malcolm retired from journalism to become a writer and college professor. He was a visiting fellow at St. Antony's College, Oxford for two years and has been the overall director of historical research at that university since 2003. In 1997 he became a member of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL) and in 2001 a member of the British Academy (FBA). In addition, he was Chairman of the Bosnia Institute in London and President of the Anglo-Albanian Association.

Honors

Malcolm became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL) in 1997 and a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) in 2001. He is a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers and a member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosovo and an honorary member of Peterhouse, Cambridge (since 2010) and Trinity College, Cambridge (since 2011). In 2012 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Prishtina . In 2013 he was awarded the British Academy Medal for his book Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan. Malcolm was knighted in the 2014 New Year's Award for Services to Science, Journalism and European History. In 2016 he was awarded the gold medal of the President of the League of Prizren by the President of Kosovo, Hashim Thaçi .

Publications (selection)

  • De Dominis, 1560-1624: Venetian, Anglican, ecumenist, and relapsed heretic (1984)
  • George Enescu: His Life and Music (Toccata Press, 1990), which has been translated into several languages
  • Bosnia: A Short History (New York University Press, 1994), which has been translated into several languages
  • Origins of English Nonsense (HarperCollins, 1997)
  • Kosovo: A Short History (New York University Press, 1998)
  • Books on Bosnia: A critical bibliography of works relating to Bosnia-Herzegovina published since 1990 in West European languages ​​(with Quintin Hoare) (Bosnian Institute, 1999)
  • Aspects of Hobbes (Oxford University Press, 2002)
  • John Pell (1611–1685) and His Correspondence with Sir Charles Cavendish: The Mental World of an Early Modern Mathematician (with Jacqueline Stedall) (Oxford University Press, 2005)
  • Agents of Empire: Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the Late Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World (2015)
  • Useful Enemies: Islam and The Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought, 1450–1750 (2019)

journalism

Malcolm has written many articles for newspapers, magazines, and journals. In addition to his work for The Spectator, The Daily Telegraph and Standpoint, he has published articles in The Guardian, The Sunday Telegraph, the New York Times, the Washington Times and Time.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sir Noel Malcolm on the Oxford University website
  2. ↑ Sir Noel Robert Malcolm on Who's Who
personal data
SURNAME Malcolm, Noel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Malcolm, Noel Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English journalist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH London