Rosemary Victoria Schofield is a British author, biographer, and historian. Her most recent books are a memoir of her thirty year friendship with

Benazir Bhutto Benazir Bhutto (21 June 1953 – 27 December 2007) was a Pakistani politician who served as the 11th prime minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990, and again from 1993 to 1996. She was also the first woman elected to head a democratic governmen ...

, a two volume history of the Black Watch and a biography of Sir John Wheeler-Bennett. She also wrote the first full-length biography of

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Archibald Wavell and edited a memoir of his life and naval career by her late father

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B. B. Schofield. She regularly contributes to British national and specialist media.

Life and career

Victoria Schofield was educated at the Royal Naval School for Girls, and at Lady Margaret Hall (LMH) of

Oxford University The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the second-oldest continuously operating u ...

, from which she holds a degree in Modern History. At LMH she was a close friend of Benazir Bhutto, whom she succeeded as President of the Oxford Union Society.Personal information
Official website. Retrieved 23 March 2016. She was the visiting Alistair Horne Fellow at St Antony's College, University of Oxford in 2004-2005.The Alistair Horne Fellowship (with list of past Fellows)
St Antony's College, Oxford. Retrieved 10 November 2012. Schofield is married to Stephen Willis and has three adult children.

Published works

*''Bhutto: Trial and Execution.'' London: Cassell, 1979. . *''The United Nations: People, Politics, and Power.'' Hove: Wayland, 1979. . *''Every Rock, Every Hill: The Plain Tale of the North-West Frontier and Afghanistan.'' London: Pimlico, 1984, 1987. . *''Kashmir in the Crossfire.'' London, Tauris, 1996. . *(ed.) ''Old Roads, New Highways: Fifty Years of Pakistan''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. . *''The House That Fell Down: A Diary of a Domestic Disaster.'' London: John Murray, 2001. . *''Wavell: Soldier and Statesman.'' London: John Murray, 2006. . *''Afghan Frontier: Feuding and Fighting in Central Asia / At the Crossroads of Conflict.'' London: Tauris Parke, 2003, 2010. . *''Kashmir in Conflict: India, Pakistan, and the Unending War.'' London: Tauris, 2000, 2003, 2010. . *''Witness to History: The Life of John Wheeler-Bennett.'' New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012. . *''The Highland Furies: The Black Watch 1739-1899''. London: Quercus, 2012. . *''The Black Watch: Fighting in the Front Line, 1899-2006''. London: Head of Zeus, 2017. . *''With The Royal Navy in War and Peace: O'er the Dark Blue Sea'' (Editor). Yorkshire: Pen & Sword, 2018. *''The Fragrance of Tears: My Friendship with Benazir Bhutto''. London: Apollo, 2020. . *''The Rescue Ships and the Convoys, Saving Lives during the Second World War''. (Editor & Author) Yorkshire: Pen & Sword, 2024,

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* . {{DEFAULTSORT:Schofield, Victoria Living people Alumni of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford British biographers British military historians British writers Writers about the Kashmir conflict Presidents of the Oxford Union Year of birth missing (living people)