Piers Brendon is a British writer, known for historical and biographical works. He was educated at Shrewsbury School

Shrewsbury School

Shrewsbury School is a co-educational independent school for pupils aged 13 to 18, founded by Royal Charter in 1552. The present campus to which the school moved in 1882 is located on the banks of the River Severn in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England...

, Shropshire, and Magdalene College, Cambridge

Magdalene College, Cambridge

Magdalene College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.The college was founded in 1428 as a Benedictine hostel, in time coming to be known as Buckingham College, before being refounded in 1542 as the College of St Mary Magdalene...

, where he read History. He earned his Ph.D for his thesis, Hurrell Froude and the Oxford Movement, which was published, with much modification, in 1974.

From 1965-78, Dr. Brendon was Lecturer in History, then Principal Lecturer and Head of Department, at what is now Anglia Polytechnic University. From 1979 onwards he has worked as a free-lance writer - books, journalism and television and from 1995 he has been a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge

Churchill College, Cambridge

Churchill College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.In 1958, a Trust was established with Sir Winston Churchill as its Chairman of Trustees, to build and endow a college for 60 fellows and 540 Students as a national and Commonwealth memorial to Winston Churchill; its...

 and was Keeper of the Churchill Archives Centre from 1995 to 2001, taking over from Correlli Barnett

Correlli Barnett

Correlli Douglas Barnett CBE FRSL is an English military historian, who has also written works of economic history, particularly on the United Kingdom's post-war "industrial decline".-Personal life:...

. He was succeeded by Allen Packwood.

Works

• Hurrell Froude and the Oxford Movement (1974)
• Hawker of Morwenstow - Portrait of a Victorian Eccentric (1975)
• A Quest of the Sangraal, Cornish Ballads & Other Poems (1975; Robert Stephen Hawker, editor)
• Eminent Edwardians (1979; ISBN 0-395-29195-X)
• 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 (2000; with Phillip Whitehead)
• The Decline and Fall of the British Empire (2007; ISBN 978-0-307-26829-7)

External links

• http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0014%2FBREN
• http://www.newstatesman.com/200008070006