Sir David Cannadine
| Sir David Cannadine | |
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| Born |
7 September 1950 Birmingham, UK |
| Residence |
London, England Connecticut |
| Nationality | British |
| Fields | History |
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| Notable awards |
Knight Bachelor; FBA; FRSL; FSA; FRHistS |
| Spouse | Linda Colley |
Sir David Cannadine FBA FRSL FSA FRHistS (born 7 September 1950) is a British author and historian, who specialises in modern history and the history of business and philanthropy. He is currently a Dodge Professor of History at Princeton University, a Visiting Professor of History at Oxford University, and the editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Cannadine is married to fellow historian Linda Colley.
David Cannadine was born in Birmingham in 1950 and attended King Edward VI Five Ways School. He was educated at Clare College, Cambridge, where he took a double first in history, at St John's College, Oxford, where he completed his DPhil, and at Princeton University where he was Jane Eliza Procter Visiting Fellow. After completing his graduate work, he returned to Cambridge, where he was a research fellow at St John's College, and was then elected a Fellow of Christ's College and appointed to a university lectureship in history.
Cannadine was appointed to the professorial chair of history at Columbia University in 1988, returning to Britain ten years later as director of the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London and, subsequently, as Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Professor of British History. In 2008 he joined the History Department of Princeton University and in 2014 he was appointed Editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and also to a visiting professorship at the University of Oxford.
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