Richard Vinen teaches history at King's College London. His most recent books are A History in Fragments: Europe in the Twentieth Century and The Unfree French: Life under the Occupation. He reviews regularly for the Independent and the Times Literary Supplement. He has also served as historical consultant for the Sun's book of the millenium -- Hold Ye Front Page.
...the politician as Nobel prize-winning author – "has many virtues" but is "rather ramshackle", felt the Independent's Richard Vinen, who inferred it was "knocked off rather quickly with an eye on the appeal that the Churchill name has in the American...
...relying too much on his reputation. His book is, in short, rather like many of Winston Churchill's. Richard Vinen's most recent book is 'Thatcher's Britain' (Pocket Books...
...today’s pretenders to the Thatcher legacy are Ed Miliband and Nigel Farage Cameron cannot revive Thatcherism by Richard Vinen (Financial Times) Meanwhile, the historian Richard Vinen explains why a simple Tory resuscitation of Thatcherism is...
...today’s pretenders to the Thatcher legacy are Ed Miliband and Nigel Farage Cameron cannot revive Thatcherism by Richard Vinen ( Financial Times ) Meanwhile, the historian Richard Vinen explains why a simple Tory resuscitation of Thatcherism is...
Times Higher Education Supplement, February 21, 2013
...is due in part to the fact that a number of recent books on the 1980s - by Richard Vinen and Andy McSmith, among others - have portrayed these years as a revolutionary decade: one that changed British politics and culture for ever and that marks the...
...Richard Vinen ponders the political significance of two of France’s most potent female icons and finds there is more to them than meets the eye. Joan of Arc, the saint...