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Sir David Cannadine has taught history at the Universities of Cambridge, Columbia, London, and Princeton. He has published many books, among them The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy (1990), G. M. Trevelyan: A Life in History (1992), Ornamentalism: How the British Saw their Empire (2001), Mellon: An American Life (2006), The Undivided Past: History Beyond our Differences (2014), and Victorious Century: The United Kingdom 1801-1906 (2018). He has served as Director of the Institute of Historical Research, President of the British Academy, and Chairman of the Trustees of the National Portrait gallery, as well as General Editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography since 2014.
Factually sound, judicious in its assessments, superbly written and, above all, entirely fair. Sir David Cannadine does ample justice to Britain's longest-reigning monarch. * Simon Heffer, Author of The Age of Decadence * In this masterpiece of distillation and carefully crafted judgements on an extraordinary life lived in turbulent times for her country, her Commonwealth, and her family, David Cannadine brings his special gifts as a biographer and obituarist to every page. * Peter Hennessy, Author of Having It So Good: Britain in the Fifties * Here is a work that generations will turn to in order to understand not just the long and inimitable life of Elizabeth II, but crucially the incredible transformative span of history she reigned over. Cannadine is our peerless guide to the modern Elizabethan Age. * Harshan Kumarasingham, Author of A Political Legacy of the British Empire * Factually sound, judicious in its assessments, superbly written and, above all, entirely fair. Sir David Cannadine does ample justice to Britain's longest-reigning monarch. * Simon Heffer, Author of The Age of Decadence * In this masterpiece of distillation and carefully crafted judgements on an extraordinary life lived in turbulent times for her country, her Commonwealth, and her family, David Cannadine brings his special gifts as a biographer and obituarist to every page. * Peter Hennessy, Author of Having It So Good: Britain in the Fifties * Here is a work that generations will turn to in order to understand not just the long and inimitable life of Elizabeth II, but crucially the incredible transformative span of history she reigned over. Cannadine is our peerless guide to the modern Elizabethan Age. * Harshan Kumarasingham, Author of A Political Legacy of the British Empire * Cannadine has produced a brief yet impressively rich and vivid biography. He has skilfully circumvented the limitations of royal biography by weaving into his book the extraordinary British, imperial and world history with which the late queen's life was entwined. * Harshan Kumarasingham, Literary Review *
