Richard Vinen

Richard Charles Vinen is a British historian and academic who holds a professorship at King's College London. Vinen is a specialist in 20th-century European history, particularly of Britain and France.[1]

Life

Vinen was born in Birmingham and lived on a road in the Bourneville Estate. His father was a professor of physics.[2] From 1982 to 1989, he attended Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1985, and then completing his doctoral studies there;[3][4] his PhD was awarded in 1989 for his thesis "The politics of French Business 1936–1945."[5] He was a Fellow at Trinity from 1988 to 1992, and was a part-time lecturer at Queen Mary University of London from 1988 to 1991.[4] He eventually 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] After lecturing at Queen Mary, he joined King's College London in 1991 as a lecturer; he was promoted to a readership in 2001, and was appointed Professor of History in 2007.[3][4]

Vinen's book National Service: Conscription in Britain, 1945–1963 (2014) received generally positive reviews.[6][7] On 13 May 2015, he was presented with a Wolfson History Prize and Templer Medal for it.[8] He also won the Walter Laqueur Prize in 2012 (recognising the best article in Journal of Contemporary History of the previous year) for "The Poisoned Madeleine: The Autobiographical Turn in Historical Writing".[4][9] In 2018, Vinen delivered the Institute of Historical Research's Creighton Lecture on the topic "When was Thatcherism?".[10] In 2020, he was one of three historians invited to give the Historical Research Lecture; it was entitled "Writing histories of 2020".[11]

Selected publications
  • The Politics of French Business 1936–1945. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. ISBN 0521404401
  • Bourgeois Politics in France, 1945–1951. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. ISBN 0521474515[12]
  • France, 1934–1970. London, Macmillan, 1996.
  • A History in Fragments: Europe in the Twentieth Century. London: Little, Brown, & Co., 2000. ISBN 0316853747
  • The Unfree French: Life under Occupation. London: Penguin, 2006. ISBN 0300121326[13]
  • Thatcher's Britain. London: Simon & Schuster, 2009. ISBN 9781847371751
  • National Service: Conscription in Britain 1945–1963. London: Allen Lane, 2014. ISBN 184614387X
  • The Long '68: Radical Protest and Its Enemies. London: Allen Lane, 2018. ISBN 0241343429

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. "Professor Richard Vinen", King's College London. Retrieved 20 September 2018.
  4. "Richard Vinen Curriculum Vitae", Sciences Po (2015). Retrieved 20 September 2018.
  5. "The politics of French Business 1936–1945", EThOS (British Library). Retrieved 20 September 2018.
  6. "National Service: Conscription in Britain 1945–1963 by Richard Vinen, review: 'a little laborious'". Telegraph. Retrieved 2015-05-21.
  7. Richard Davenport-Hines. "National Service: Conscription in Britain 1945–1963 by Richard Vinen – review | Books". The Guardian. Retrieved 2015-05-21.
  8. "King's College London - Professor Richard Vinen wins Wolfson Prize and Templer Medal".
  9. For the announcement, see Journal of Contemporary History, vol. 47, no. 3 (2012), p. 504. The article appeared in vol. 46, no. 3 (2011), pp. 531–554.
  10. "Autumn lectures on Irish, Public, and Modern British history", On History (Institute of Historical Research), 9 November 2018. Retrieved 9 February 2021.
  11. "The 2020 Historical Research lecture: Writing histories of 2020: First responses and early perspectives", Historical Research, vol. 93, no. 262 (2020), pp. 786–806.
  12. Nord, Philip (1 January 1997). "Review of Bourgeois Politics in France, 1945-1951". French Politics and Society. 15 (1): 88–90. JSTOR 42844623.
  13. Le Ber, Jocelyne (1 January 2008). "Review of The Unfree French: Life under the Occupation". Rocky Mountain Review. 62 (1): 92–94. JSTOR 20479508.
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