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

Life[edit]

He was educated at Shrewsbury School and Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he read history. He received a Ph.D. degree for his thesis, Hurrell Froude and the Oxford Movement, which was published, with much modification, in 1974.^{[citation needed]}

From 1965 to 1978, he was lecturer in history, then principal lecturer and head of department, at what is now Anglia Ruskin University. Since 1979, he has worked as a freelance writer of books, journalism and for television.^{[citation needed]}

In 1995, he became a fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge and was keeper of the Churchill Archives Centre from 1995 to 2001,^[1] in succession to Correlli Barnett. Brendon was himself succeeded by Allen Packwood.^[2]

Works[edit]

• Hurrell Froude and the Oxford Movement. London: Paul Elek. 1974. ISBN 0-236-31080-1 – via Internet Archive.
• Hawker of Morwenstow: Portrait of a Victorian Eccentric. London: Jonathan Cape. 1975. ISBN 0-224-01122-7 – via Internet Archive.
• A Quest of the Sangraal, Cornish Ballads & Other Poems (1975; Robert Stephen Hawker, editor)
• Eminent Edwardians. London: Secker & Warburg. 1979. ISBN 0-436-06810-9 – via Internet Archive.
• The Life and Death of the Press Barons (1983)
• Winston Churchill: A Brief Life (1984)
• Ike - the Life and Times of Dwight D. Eisenhower (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 Royal Automobile Club (1997)
• The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s (2000; ISBN 0-375-70808-1)
• The Windsors - A Dynasty Revealed 1917–2000, with Phillip Whitehead (2000: ISBN 0712667970. Original 1994; ISBN 978-0340610138)
• The Decline and Fall of the British Empire. London: Jonathan Cape. 2007. ISBN 978-0-307-26829-7 – via Internet Archive.
• Eminent Elizabethans (2013, Penguin Books, ISBN 978-0-099-53263-7)

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• The Papers of Piers Brendon held at Churchill Archives Centre
• Piers Brendon at IMDb
• Works by or about Piers Brendon at Internet Archive