Richard Vinen

Richard Charles Vinen is a British professor of history at King's College, London. Vinen is a specialist in European twentieth century history, particularly Great Britain and France.[1] He was born in Birmingham and lived on a road in the Bourneville Estate. His father was a professor of physics. Vinen attended Trinity College, Cambridge. Later he moved to London where he and his wife lived in a succession of "amusingly louche" locations early in his career. He has written that "the Serious Crime Squad once installed a camera in our bedroom so that they could keep an eye on one of our neighbours."[2] His first academic post was at Queen Mary College (now Queen Mary University of London) and he joined King's in 1991.

Vinen's latest book National Service: Conscription in Britain, 1945–1963 (2014) received generally positive reviews.[3][4] On 13 May 2015 he was presented with a Wolfson History Prize and Templer Medal for it.[5]

Selected publications

References

  1. ↑ Professor Richard Vinen. King's College, London. Retrieved 21 May 2015.
  2. ↑ "National Service: Conscription in Britain, 1945–1963, by Richard Vinen | Books". Times Higher Education. 2014-08-28. Retrieved 2015-05-21.
  3. ↑ "National Service: Conscription in Britain 1945–1963 by Richard Vinen, review: 'a little laborious'". Telegraph. Retrieved 2015-05-21.
  4. ↑ Richard Davenport-Hines. "National Service: Conscription in Britain 1945–1963 by Richard Vinen – review | Books". The Guardian. Retrieved 2015-05-21.
  5. ↑ http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/history/newsrecords/2014-15/richard-vinen-wolfson-templer.aspxh
  6. ↑ jstor.org
  7. ↑ palgrave.com
  8. ↑ books.google.com
  9. ↑ jstor.org
  10. ↑ books.google.com
  11. ↑ amazon.co.uk


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