Richard Vinen

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Richard Charles Vinen (born 1963 in Birmingham ) is a British historian.

Life

Richard Vinen's father was a physics professor. Vinen studied at Trinity College, Cambridge . He received his doctorate there in 1989 and was a research fellow there until 1992. Between 1988 and 1992 he was a lecturer at Queen Mary College in London. In 1991 he went to King's College London , where he became a reader in 2001 and received a professorship in 2007.

Vinen works on 20th century European history. In 2015 he received the Wolfson History Prize .

Vinen writes essays and book reviews for The Times Literary Supplement , The London Review of Books , The Independent , The Boston Globe , Financial Times , The New York Times and the American weekly newspaper The Nation . Vinen wrote introductions to new translations of Maigret novels by Georges Simenon .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Politics of French Business: 1936-1945 . Cambridge University Press, 1991
  • Bourgeois Politics in France, 1945–1951 . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995
  • France 1934-1970 . London: Macmillan, 1996
  • A History in Fragments, Europe in the Twentieth Century . Little Brown, 2000
  • The Unfree French: Life under Occupation . London: Penguin, 2006
  • Thatcher's Britain. The politics and social upheaval of the Thatcher era . London: Simon & Schuster, 2009
  • National Service: Conscription in Britain 1945–1963 . Allen Lane, 2014
  • The long '68: radical protest and its enemies . London: Allen Lane, 2018
    • 1968: the long protest: biography of a decade . Translation Martin Bayer, Heike Schlatterer. Munich: Piper, 2018

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ AW Purdue: National Service: Conscription in Britain, 1945-1963, by Richard Vinen , review and author portrait in: Times Higher Education , March 17, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Vinen, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vinen, Richard Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Birmingham