Born: 1950
Birthplace: Birmingham, England

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Historian

Nationality: England
Executive summary: Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy

Wife: Linda Colley (historian, m. 1982)

    University: Clare College, Cambridge University
    University: St. John's College, Oxford University
    Teacher: Christ's College, Cambridge University
    Professor: Columbia University (1992-)

Author of books:
Lords and Landlords: The Aristocracy and the Towns, 1774-1967 (1980)
The Pleasures of the Past (1991)
G. M. Trevelyan: A Life in History (1992, biography)
Rituals of Royalty: Power and Ceremonial in Traditional Societies (1992)
Aspects of Aristocracy: Grandeur and Decline in Modern Britain (1994)
The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy (1996)
The Rise and Fall of Class in Britain (1998)
History in Our Time (1998)
Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire (2001)
In Churchill's Shadow: Confronting the Past in Modern Britain (2002)

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