Timothy Garton Ash CMG FRSA (born 12 July 1955) is a British historian, author, and commentator. He is Professor of European Studies at Oxford University. Most of his work has been concerned with the contemporary history of Europe, with a special focus on Central and Eastern Europe.
He has written about the former Communist regimes of that region, their experience with the secret police, the Revolutions of 1989, and the transformation of the former Eastern Bloc states into member states of the European Union. He has also examined the role of Europe in the world and the challenge of combining political freedom and diversity, especially in relation to free speech.
Books in order of publication:
Und willst du nicht mein Bruder sein … Die DDR heute (Rowohlt, 1981)
The Polish Revolution: Solidarity, 1980–82 (Scribner, 1984)
The Uses of Adversity: Essays on the Fate of Central Europe (Random House, 1989)
The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of 1989 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague (Random House, 1990)
In Europe’s Name: Germany and the Divided Continent (Random House, 1993)
The File: A Personal History (Random House, 1997)
History of the Present: Essays, Sketches, and Dispatches from Europe in the 1990s (Allen Lane, 1999)
Free World: America, Europe, and the Surprising Future of the West (Random House, 2004)
Facts are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade without a Name (Atlantic Books, 2009)
(edited, with Adam Roberts) Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non-violent Action from Gandhi to the Present (Oxford University Press, 2011)
Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World (Yale University Press, 2016)
(edited, with Adam Roberts, Michael J. Willis, and Rory McCarthy) Civil Resistance in the Arab Spring: Triumphs and Disasters (Oxford University Press, 2016)
Obrona Liberalizmu (Fundacja Kultura Liberalna, 2022) ISBN 9788366619067
Homelands: A Personal History of Europe (Yale University Press, 2023)
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