Peter Snowdon is a contemporary historian and journalist

Journalist

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Educated at St. Dunstan's College, Durham University

Durham University

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 and the London School of Economics

London School of Economics

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, he has collaborated with Anthony Seldon

Anthony Seldon

Dr. Anthony F. Seldon MA, PhD, FRSA, MBA, FRHistS is a political commentator best known as Tony Blair's biographer and the Master of Wellington College...

 on a number of books, including the authorised biography of John Major

John Major

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, Major: A Political Life (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997), Blair (Simon & Schuster, 2004) and Blair Unbound (Simon & Schuster, 2007).

He has written articles on the Conservative Party

Conservative Party (UK)

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 in several academic journals, including The Political Quarterly and Parliamentary Affairs. He has also contributed to Parliamentary Monitor, Parliamentary Brief

Parliamentary Brief

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and Newsweek

Newsweek

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. He is an occasional columnist for the Yorkshire Post

Yorkshire Post

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and has appeared as a commentator on television and radio in the UK and abroad. He currently works for BBC

BBC

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 political programmes, having previously worked at London Weekend Television

London Weekend Television

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Books and publications

• Author, "Back From The Brink" (September 2010)
• Co-author, Blair Unbound with Anthony Seldon and Daniel Collings (Simon & Schuster, 2007)
• Contributor, The Blair Effect: 2001-05 (CUP, 2005)
• Contributor, Recovering Power: The Conservative Party in Opposition since 1867 (Palgrave, 2005)
• Contributor, Britain Votes 2005 (edited by Pippa Norris, OUP, 2005)
• Co-author, The Conservative Party: An Illustrated History (Sutton Publishing, 2004)
• Principal researcher, Blair (Simon & Schuster, 2004)
• Co-author, A New Conservative Century? (Centre for Policy Studies, 2001)