Linda Colley
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Linda Colley (born 1949) is a British historian, widely known for her 1992 study Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837, which explored the development of a British national identity following the 1707 Acts of Union. She is currently Shelby M. C. Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton University. She became a well-known figure with a lecture Britishness in the 21st Century in December 1999, in the series of Millennium Lectures hosted by Tony and Cherie Blair.
She was an undergraduate at Bristol University, and wrote a doctorate at the University of Cambridge supervised by Jack Plumb. She became a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, before taking a position at Yale University in 1982, later from 1992 being Richard M. Colgate Professor of History there. From 1998 she was Senior Leverhulme Research Professorship in History, at the London School of Economics, moving to Princeton, New Jersey in 2003.
She married the historian David Cannadine in 1982.
She writes for The Guardian and featured in the BBC documentary, The Power of Nightmares.
[edit] Works
- In Defiance of Oligarchy: the Tory Party 1714-1760 (1982)
- Crown Pictorial: Art and the British Monarchy (1990)
- Lewis Namier (1989)
- Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837 (1992)
- Captives: Britain, Empire and the World 1600-1850 (2002)
[edit] External links
- The Guardian - Book review of Captives
- Princeton History Department - http://his.princeton.edu/people/e102/colley/profile.html
- Interview - http://his.princeton.edu/people/e54/linda_colley_intervi.html
- On Iraq - http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1669330,00.html
