Richard Vinen is a Professor in Modern European History at King’s College, London. Prior to joining the department in 1991, he was a Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge and lectured at Queen Mary (Westfield) College.
Richard Vinen is the author of the widely praised “A History in Fragments: Europe in the Twentieth Century”. He writes regularly for The Independent, The Times Literary Supplement, the Boston Globe, and the Nation.
Books in order of publication:
The Politics of French Business 1936–1945. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Bourgeois Politics in France, 1945–1951. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
France, 1934–1970. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996.
A History in Fragments: Europe in the Twentieth Century. London: Little, Brown, & Co., 2000.
The Unfree French: Life under Occupation. London: Penguin, 2006.
Thatcher’s Britain. London: Simon & Schuster, 2009.
National Service: Conscription in Britain 1945–1963. London: Allen Lane, 2014.
The Long ’68: Radical Protest and Its Enemies. London: Allen Lane, 2018.
Second City: Birmingham and the Forging of Modern Britain. London: Penguin, 2022.
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