Noel Malcolm
Encyclopedia
Noel Robert Malcolm FBA FRSL (born 26 December 1956) is a modern English historian, writer, and columnist.
(where he was a King's Scholar
) , read History at Peterhouse, Cambridge
, wrote his doctorate dissertation at Trinity College, Cambridge
, and was for a time Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
.
He is a former Foreign Editor of The Spectator
, and columnist for the Daily Telegraph. He gave up journalism in 1995 to become a full time writer, becoming in 2002 a Senior Research Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford
. He is a Fellow of the British Academy
. He serves on the advisory board of the conservative magazine Standpoint
. He is the general editor for the Clarendon edition of the complete works of Thomas Hobbes, and the editor of The Correspondence.
He now chairs the Board of Trustees at the Bosnian Institute
, an organization on Bosnia-Herzegovina.
: His Life and Music (1990) (Toccata Press). He also wrote a pamphlet in 1991 titled Sense on Sovereignty, a discussion of the arguments about Britain's membership of the European Union published by the Centre for Policy Studies
.
Life
Malcolm was educated at Eton CollegeEton College
Eton College, often referred to simply as Eton, is a British independent school for boys aged 13 to 18. It was founded in 1440 by King Henry VI as "The King's College of Our Lady of Eton besides Wyndsor"....
(where he was a King's Scholar
King's Scholar
A King's Scholar is a foundation scholar of one of certain public schools...
) , read History at Peterhouse, Cambridge
Peterhouse, Cambridge
Peterhouse is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. It is the oldest college of the University, having been founded in 1284 by Hugo de Balsham, Bishop of Ely...
, wrote his doctorate dissertation at Trinity College, Cambridge
Trinity College, Cambridge
Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Trinity has more members than any other college in Cambridge or Oxford, with around 700 undergraduates, 430 graduates, and over 170 Fellows...
, and was for a time Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Gonville and Caius College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. The college is often referred to simply as "Caius" , after its second founder, John Keys, who fashionably latinised the spelling of his name after studying in Italy.- Outline :Gonville and...
.
He is a former Foreign Editor of The Spectator
The Spectator
The Spectator is a weekly British magazine first published on 6 July 1828. It is currently owned by David and Frederick Barclay, who also owns The Daily Telegraph. Its principal subject areas are politics and culture...
, and columnist for the Daily Telegraph. He gave up journalism in 1995 to become a full time writer, becoming in 2002 a Senior Research Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford
All Souls College, Oxford
The Warden and the College of the Souls of all Faithful People deceased in the University of Oxford or All Souls College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England....
. He is a Fellow of the British Academy
British Academy
The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national body for the humanities and the social sciences. Its purpose is to inspire, recognise and support excellence in the humanities and social sciences, throughout the UK and internationally, and to champion their role and value.It receives an annual...
. He serves on the advisory board of the conservative magazine Standpoint
Standpoint (magazine)
Standpoint is a monthly British cultural and political magazine. Its premier issue was published at the end of May 2008 – the first launch of a major current affairs publication in the UK in more than a decade....
. He is the general editor for the Clarendon edition of the complete works of Thomas Hobbes, and the editor of The Correspondence.
He now chairs the Board of Trustees at the Bosnian Institute
Bosnian Institute
The Bosnian Institute is an organisation principally devoted to providing information on, and promoting the common good of, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It publishes a quarterly online magazine. It is directed by Quintin Hoare....
, an organization on Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Works
Noel Malcolm is the author of Bosnia: A Short History (1994), Origins of English Nonsense (1997), Kosovo: A Short History (1998), Aspects of Hobbes (2002), and (with Jacqueline Stedall) John Pell (1611-1685) and His Correspondence with Sir Charles Cavendish: The Mental World of an Early Modern Mathematician (2005). He is the editor of The Correspondence of Thomas Hobbes (1994). He has also written George EnescuGeorge Enescu
George Enescu was a Romanian composer, violinist, pianist, conductor and teacher.-Biography:Enescu was born in the village of Liveni , Dorohoi County at the time, today Botoşani County. He showed musical talent from early in his childhood. A child prodigy, Enescu created his first musical...
: His Life and Music (1990) (Toccata Press). He also wrote a pamphlet in 1991 titled Sense on Sovereignty, a discussion of the arguments about Britain's membership of the European Union published by the Centre for Policy Studies
Centre for Policy Studies
The Centre for Policy Studies is a British right wing policy think tank whose goal is to promote coherent and practical public policy, to roll back the state, reform public services, support communities, and challenge threats to Britain’s independence...
.
Articles by Noel Malcolm on Yugoslavia available online
- "South Ossetia is not Kosovo", StandpointStandpoint (magazine)Standpoint is a monthly British cultural and political magazine. Its premier issue was published at the end of May 2008 – the first launch of a major current affairs publication in the UK in more than a decade....
, 29 September 2008 - "Is Kosovo Serbia? We ask a historian" The GuardianThe GuardianThe Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
, Tuesday 26 February 2008. - "Nato must remain until the job is done", The Daily TelegraphThe Daily TelegraphThe Daily Telegraph is a daily morning broadsheet newspaper distributed throughout the United Kingdom and internationally. The newspaper was founded by Arthur B...
, 2 September 2001. - "Milosevic was doomed by press freedom", The Sunday Telegraph, 1 July 2001.
- "Why we were right to bomb Kosovo", The Daily Telegraph, 24 March 2000.
- "Independence for Kosovo", The New York TimesThe New York TimesThe New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
, 9 June 1999. - "Kosovo, Serbian Nationalism and Territorial Partition", HABSBURG Reviews, 10 May 1999.
- "Response to Amos Perlmutter's op-ed "Who Will Run Kosovo", The Washington Times, 4 May 1999.
- "What Ancient Hatreds?", Foreign Affairs, January/February 1999.
- "Kosovo: Only Independence Will Work", The National Interest, Winter 1998/99.
- "Kicking Kenney on Kosovo", The Nation, 16 November 1998, Volume 267, Number 16.
- "Kosovo's History", New York Review of Books, 16 July 1998.
- "Kosovo and Bosnia: three points", Bosnian report, March-May 1998, New Series no.3.
- "The Past Must Not Be Prologue", Time, 30 March 1998, Vol. 151 N° 13.
- "The grandee and a question of genocide", Daily MailDaily MailThe Daily Mail is a British daily middle-market tabloid newspaper owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust. First published in 1896 by Lord Northcliffe, it is the United Kingdom's second biggest-selling daily newspaper after The Sun. Its sister paper The Mail on Sunday was launched in 1982...
, 6 November 1996. - "Appease with Dishonor: Faulty History", Foreign Affairs, November/December 1995.
- "The Vlachs in Bosnia" Extract from Bosnia: a short history, 1994
- "The New Bully of the Balkans", The SpectatorThe SpectatorThe Spectator is a weekly British magazine first published on 6 July 1828. It is currently owned by David and Frederick Barclay, who also owns The Daily Telegraph. Its principal subject areas are politics and culture...
, 15 August 1992
In French
- "La fable de l'islamisme bosniaque" ("The hoax of Bosniak islamicism"), pp. 207-210 of Noel Malcolm : "Bosnia, A Short History"
- "Le Kosovo, le nationalisme serbe et la partition territoriale" ("Kosovo, Serbian Nationalism and Territorial Partition")
- "Quelles haines ancestrales ?" ("What ancient hatreds?")
- "Le Kosovo appartient-il à la Serbie ? Nous posons la question à un historien" ("Is Kosovo Serbia? We ask a historian")
In Albanian
- "Kosova është territor i humbur për Serbinë", Intervistoi Iliriana A. Bajo, Radio Evropa e Lirë, 3. Dhjetor, 2003. ("Kosovo is a lost territory for Serbia", interview by Iliriana A. Bajo, Radio Free Europe, 3 December 2003)
Reviews of books on Yugoslavia by Noel Malcolm
- "Britain's fatal foreign policy", Review of the book by Brendan SimmsBrendan SimmsBrendan Peter Simms, Ph.D is Professor of the History of International Relations in the Centre of International Studies at the University of Cambridge. Simms, a Newton-Sheehy Teaching Fellow, completed his doctoral dissertation, Anglo-Prussian relations, 1804-1806: The Napoleonic Threat, at...
: Unfinest Hour: 'Britain and the Destruction of Bosnia (Allen Lane/Penguin), Bosnian Report, January - May 2002, New Series No 27-28. - "The dysfunctional functionary", The Sunday Telegraph, 20 October 2000.
- "Stay the Hand of Vengeance", Review of: Stay the Hand of Vengeance: the politics of war crimes tribunals, by Gary Bass, Princeton University Press, The Sunday Telegraph, 15 October 2000.
- "Fighting For Peace: Bosnia 1994", Review of the book by General Sir Michael Rose, Harvill, London, Bosnian Institute, 1998.
- "Norman Cigar's Genocide in Bosnia: the policy of ethnic cleansing", The Sunday Telegraph, 11 June 1995.
- "David Owen and his Balkan bungling", extended version of a review of Lord Owen's "Balkan Odyssey" (London 1995, New York 1996), first published in The Sunday Telegraph on 12 November 1995.