Peter Snowdon is a contemporary historian and

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. Educated at St. Dunstan's College,

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and the

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, he has collaborated with

Anthony Seldon Sir Anthony Francis Seldon (born 2 August 1953) is a British contemporary historian and educator. As an author, he is known for his political biographies of consecutive British Prime Ministers, John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Camer ...

on a number of books, including the authorised biography of

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, ''Major: A Political Life'' (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997), ''Blair'' (Simon & Schuster, 2004) and ''Blair Unbound'' (Simon & Schuster, 2007). He has written articles on the Conservative Party in several academic journals, including ''The Political Quarterly'' and ''Parliamentary Affairs''. He has also contributed to ''Parliamentary Monitor'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. He is an occasional columnist for the ''

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'' and has appeared as a commentator on television and radio in the UK and abroad. He currently works for

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political programmes, having previously worked at

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Books and publications

*Author, ''Back from the Brink: The Extraordinary Fall and Rise of the Conservative Party'' (September 2010) *Co-author, ''Blair Unbound'' with Anthony Seldon and Daniel Collings (Simon & Schuster, 2007) *Contributor, ''The Blair Effect: 2001-05'' (CUP, 2005) *Contributor, ''Recovering Power: The Conservative Party in Opposition since 1867'' (Palgrave, 2005) *Contributor, ''Britain Votes 2005'' (edited by Pippa Norris, OUP, 2005) *Co-author, ''The Conservative Party: An Illustrated History'' (Sutton Publishing, 2004) *Principal researcher, ''Blair'' (Simon & Schuster, 2004) *Co-author, ''A New Conservative Century?'' (Centre for Policy Studies, 2001)

References

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