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Piers Brendon (born 21 December 1940) is a British historian and writer, known for historical and biographical works.


Life

He was educated at Shrewsbury School and
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, where he read history. He received a Ph.D. degree for his thesis, '' Hurrell Froude and the
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'', which was published, with much modification, in 1974. From 1965 to 1978, he was lecturer in history, then principal lecturer and head of department, at what is now
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. Since 1979, he has worked as a freelance writer of books,
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and for television. In 1995, he became a fellow of Churchill College,
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and was keeper of the Churchill Archives Centre from 1995 to 2001, in succession to Correlli Barnett. Brendon was himself succeeded by Allen Packwood.


Works

* * *''A Quest of the Sangraal'', ''Cornish Ballads & Other Poems'' (1975; Robert Stephen Hawker, editor) * *''The Life and Death of the Press Barons'' (1983) *''
Winston Churchill Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 (Winston Churchill in the Second World War, ...
: A Brief Life'' (1984) *''Ike - the Life and Times of
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'' (1986) *''Our Own Dear Queen'' (1986) *''Thomas Cook - 150 Years of Popular Tourism'' (1991) *''The Age of Reform 1820–1850'' (1994) *''The Motoring Century: Story of the
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'' (1997) *''The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s'' (2000; ) *'' The Windsors - A Dynasty Revealed 1917–2000'', with
Phillip Whitehead Phillip Whitehead (30 May 1937 – 31 December 2005) was a British Labour politician, television producer and writer. Early life Born in Matlock Bath, Derbyshire, he was adopted by a local family in Rowsley, and attended Lady Manners School ...
(2000: . Original 1994; ) *''Tom Sharpe: A Personal Memoir'' (2024) *
''Eminent Elizabethans''
(2013,
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, )


References


External links


The Papers of Piers Brendon
held at Churchill Archives Centre * * 1940 births Living people Fellows of Churchill College, Cambridge Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature People from Stratton, Cornwall British historians British writers Alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge People educated at Shrewsbury School British republicans {{UK-writer-stub