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David Reynolds (historian)

February 15, 2024

David Reynolds, FBA (born 17 February 1952) is a British historian. He is Emeritus Professor of International History at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge.

David Reynolds in 2022.

Reynolds delivering a lecture at Gresham College in 2014.

Biography edit

Reynolds attended school at Dulwich College on a scholarship, and studied history at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge (BA, PhD), and Harvard University (Chaote and Warren Fellowships).[1][2] He has held visiting posts at Harvard, Nebraska and Oklahoma universities, as well as at Nihon University in Tokyo and Sciences Po in Paris.

Reynolds was awarded the Wolfson History Prize, 2005, and elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2005. His research and writing specialise in the two world wars and the Cold War. He served as Chairman of the History Faculty at Cambridge in 2013-15 and retired from University teaching in 2019. He has served on academic advisory boards for the redevelopment of the Imperial War Museum First World War Galleries (2011-14) and Second World War Galleries (since 2016).[3] In 2021, he succeeded Roger Knight as President of Cambridge University Cricket Club.

Documentaries edit

Reynolds has made thirteen documentaries on 20th-century history for the BBC, most recently the three-part BBC2 series Long Shadow, based on his award-winning book about the legacies and memory of 1914–18 and a trilogy of films about the Big Three allies in the Second World War: World War Two: 1941 and the Man of Steel, World War Two: 1942 and Hitler's Soft Underbelly and World War Two: 1945 and the Wheelchair President. All these films have been directed by Russell Barnes.[4]

Reynolds was also the writer and presenter of the award-winning ninety-part series America, Empire of Liberty, broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

Personal life edit

Reynolds is married, with one son and three grandchildren.[5]

Awards and honours edit

Books edit

  • 1981: The Creation of the Anglo-American Alliance, 1937–1941: a Study in Competitive Co-operation (1981) University of North Carolina Press ISBN 0-8078-1507-1 (Awarded the Bernath Prize by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 1982)
  • 1988: An Ocean Apart: the Relationship between Britain and America in the 20th Century – co-author David Dimbleby. Hodder & Stoughton ISBN 0-340-40666-6 (Linked to BBC/PBS TV series.)
  • 1991: Britannia Overruled: British Policy and World Power in the 20th Century. Longman ISBN 0-582-43725-3
  • 1994: Allies at War: the Soviet, American and British Experience 1939–1945 (Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute Series on Diplomatic and Economic History). (Co-edited with Warren F. Kimball and A. O. Chubarian). Palgrave Macmillan ISBN 0-312-10259-3
  • 1994: The Origins of the Cold War in Europe: International Perspectives (editor). Yale University Press ISBN 0-300-05892-6
  • 1995: Rich Relations: the American Occupation of Britain, 1942–1945. Random House ISBN 0-517-16871-5 (Awarded the US Society for Military History's Distinguished Book Award, 1996)
  • 2000: One World Divisible: a Global History since 1945.. Allen Lane ISBN 0-7139-9461-4
  • 2001: From Munich to Pearl Harbor: Roosevelt's America and the Origins of the Second World War. Ivan R. Dee ISBN 1-56663-389-3
  • 2004: In Command of History: Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World War. Random House ISBN 0-679-45743-7 (Awarded the Wolfson History Prize, 2004)
  • 2005: Christ's: a Cambridge College Over Five Centuries (editor). Macmillan ISBN 0-333-98988-0
  • 2006: From World War to Cold War: Churchill, Roosevelt, and the International History of the 1940s. Oxford University Press ISBN 0-19-928411-3
  • 2007: Summits: Six Meetings That Shaped the Twentieth Century. Allen Lane ISBN 0-7139-9917-9
  • 2008: FDR's World: War, Peace, and Legacies. (Co-edited with David B. Woolner and Warren F. Kimball) Palgrave Macmillan ISBN 0-230-60938-4
  • 2009: America, Empire of Liberty: A New History. David Reynolds ISBN 978-0-14-190856-4
  • 2013: The Long Shadow: The Great War and the Twentieth Century. Simon & Schuster UK ISBN 978-0857206350; W. W. Norton, 2014 US ISBN 978-0-393-08863-2 (Awarded the Hessell-Tiltman Prize, 2014)
  • 2016: Transcending the Cold War: Summits, Statecraft, and the Dissolution of Bipolarity in Europe, 1970–1990. (Co-edited with Kristina Spohr) Oxford University Press ISBN 978-0-19-872750-7
  • 2018: The Kremlin Letters: Stalin's Wartime Correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt, with Vladimir Pechatnov. Yale University Press ISBN 978-0-300-22682-9 (Awarded the Link-Kuehl Prize by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, 2020)
  • 2019: Island Stories: Britain and its History in the Age of Brexit HarperCollins ISBN 978-0-00-828231-8
  • 2023: Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him HarperCollins ISBN 978-0-00-843991-0

Broadcasting (as writer and presenter) edit

  • 2004: Churchill's Forgotten Years – BBC 4/BBC 2
  • 2004: The Improbable Mr Attlee – BBC 4
  • 2008: Summits – three-part series: (1) Munich, 1938; (2) Vienna, 1961; (3) Geneva, 1985 – BBC 4
  • 2008: Armistice – BBC2 (Grierson Award: Best Historical Documentary, runner-up)
  • 2008–09: America, Empire of Liberty – BBC Radio 4 (90-part series, accompanying the writer's 2009 book)[7][8] (Voice of the Listener & Viewer Award for the Best New Radio Programme of 2008; Sony Radio Academy Award, Nomination, 2009; Orwell Prize, Shortlist, 2010)
  • 2010: Nixon in the Den – BBC 4
  • 2011: World War Two: 1941 and the Man of Steel – BBC 4 (Grierson Award: Best Historical Documentary, Nomination)
  • 2012: World War Two: 1942 and Hitler's Soft Underbelly – BBC 4
  • 2014: The Long Shadow – three-part series: (1) Remembering and Understanding; (2) Ballots and Bullets; (3) Us and Them – BBC 2
  • 2015: World War Two: 1945 and the Wheelchair President – BBC 4
  • 2016: Verdun: The Sacred Wound BBC Radio 4 (2-part series: (1) The Battle; (2) Loss and Legacy)
  • 2017: Balfour's Promised Land BBC Radio 4 - on the centenary of the Balfour Declaration
  • 2022: FDR's Four Freedoms BBC Radio 4 - Archive on Four, 2 Dec. 2022, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001fm6c

References edit

  1. ^ Interview in The Guardian, 2 October 2007
  2. ^ "REYNOLDS, Prof. David James". Who's Who. Vol. 2024 (online ed.). A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ "History & Policy". www.historyandpolicy.org. Retrieved 10 March 2023.
  4. ^ Interview in The Sunday Telegraph, 14 October 2012
  5. ^ Interview in The Guardian, 2 October 2007
  6. ^ Timothy R. Smith (9 April 2014). "David Reynolds wins PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize". The Washington Post. Retrieved 7 June 2014.
  7. ^ BBC website for the radio series
  8. ^ , The Daily Telegraph – the author talks about the radio series.

External links edit

  • Professor David Reynolds - Fellows of the British Academy
  • Author talks about The Long Shadow on YouTube
  • Lecture: "The Long Shadow: The Great War and International Memory, 1914–2014" on YouTube, via the official channel of Gresham College, UK

February 15, 2024
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David Reynolds FBA born 17 February 1952 is a British historian He is Emeritus Professor of International History at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Christ s College Cambridge David Reynolds in 2022 Reynolds delivering a lecture at Gresham College in 2014 Contents 1 Biography 2 Documentaries 3 Personal life 4 Awards and honours 5 Books 6 Broadcasting as writer and presenter 7 References 8 External linksBiography editReynolds attended school at Dulwich College on a scholarship and studied history at Gonville and Caius College Cambridge BA PhD and Harvard University Chaote and Warren Fellowships 1 2 He has held visiting posts at Harvard Nebraska and Oklahoma universities as well as at Nihon University in Tokyo and Sciences Po in Paris Reynolds was awarded the Wolfson History Prize 2005 and elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2005 His research and writing specialise in the two world wars and the Cold War He served as Chairman of the History Faculty at Cambridge in 2013 15 and retired from University teaching in 2019 He has served on academic advisory boards for the redevelopment of the Imperial War Museum First World War Galleries 2011 14 and Second World War Galleries since 2016 3 In 2021 he succeeded Roger Knight as President of Cambridge University Cricket Club Documentaries editReynolds has made thirteen documentaries on 20th century history for the BBC most recently the three part BBC2 series Long Shadow based on his award winning book about the legacies and memory of 1914 18 and a trilogy of films about the Big Three allies in the Second World War World War Two 1941 and the Man of Steel World War Two 1942 and Hitler s Soft Underbelly and World War Two 1945 and the Wheelchair President All these films have been directed by Russell Barnes 4 Reynolds was also the writer and presenter of the award winning ninety part series America Empire of Liberty broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Personal life editReynolds is married with one son and three grandchildren 5 Awards and honours edit2004 Wolfson History Prize In Command of History 2005 Fellow of the British Academy 2014 Hessell Tiltman Prize The Long Shadow 6 Books edit1981 The Creation of the Anglo American Alliance 1937 1941 a Study in Competitive Co operation 1981 University of North Carolina Press ISBN 0 8078 1507 1 Awarded the Bernath Prize by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations 1982 1988 An Ocean Apart the Relationship between Britain and America in the 20th Century co author David Dimbleby Hodder amp Stoughton ISBN 0 340 40666 6 Linked to BBC PBS TV series 1991 Britannia Overruled British Policy and World Power in the 20th Century Longman ISBN 0 582 43725 3 1994 Allies at War the Soviet American and British Experience 1939 1945 Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute Series on Diplomatic and Economic History Co edited with Warren F Kimball and A O Chubarian Palgrave Macmillan ISBN 0 312 10259 3 1994 The Origins of the Cold War in Europe International Perspectives editor Yale University Press ISBN 0 300 05892 6 1995 Rich Relations the American Occupation of Britain 1942 1945 Random House ISBN 0 517 16871 5 Awarded the US Society for Military History s Distinguished Book Award 1996 2000 One World Divisible a Global History since 1945 Allen Lane ISBN 0 7139 9461 4 2001 From Munich to Pearl Harbor Roosevelt s America and the Origins of the Second World War Ivan R Dee ISBN 1 56663 389 3 2004 In Command of History Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World War Random House ISBN 0 679 45743 7 Awarded the Wolfson History Prize 2004 2005 Christ s a Cambridge College Over Five Centuries editor Macmillan ISBN 0 333 98988 0 2006 From World War to Cold War Churchill Roosevelt and the International History of the 1940s Oxford University Press ISBN 0 19 928411 3 2007 Summits Six Meetings That Shaped the Twentieth Century Allen Lane ISBN 0 7139 9917 9 2008 FDR s World War Peace and Legacies Co edited with David B Woolner and Warren F Kimball Palgrave Macmillan ISBN 0 230 60938 4 2009 America Empire of Liberty A New History David Reynolds ISBN 978 0 14 190856 4 2013 The Long Shadow The Great War and the Twentieth Century Simon amp Schuster UK ISBN 978 0857206350 W W Norton 2014 US ISBN 978 0 393 08863 2 Awarded the Hessell Tiltman Prize 2014 2016 Transcending the Cold War Summits Statecraft and the Dissolution of Bipolarity in Europe 1970 1990 Co edited with Kristina Spohr Oxford University Press ISBN 978 0 19 872750 7 2018 The Kremlin Letters Stalin s Wartime Correspondence with Churchill and Roosevelt with Vladimir Pechatnov Yale University Press ISBN 978 0 300 22682 9 Awarded the Link Kuehl Prize by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations 2020 2019 Island Stories Britain and its History in the Age of Brexit HarperCollins ISBN 978 0 00 828231 8 2023 Mirrors of Greatness Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him HarperCollins ISBN 978 0 00 843991 0Broadcasting as writer and presenter edit2004 Churchill s Forgotten Years BBC 4 BBC 2 2004 The Improbable Mr Attlee BBC 4 2008 Summits three part series 1 Munich 1938 2 Vienna 1961 3 Geneva 1985 BBC 4 2008 Armistice BBC2 Grierson Award Best Historical Documentary runner up 2008 09 America Empire of Liberty BBC Radio 4 90 part series accompanying the writer s 2009 book 7 8 Voice of the Listener amp Viewer Award for the Best New Radio Programme of 2008 Sony Radio Academy Award Nomination 2009 Orwell Prize Shortlist 2010 2010 Nixon in the Den BBC 4 2011 World War Two 1941 and the Man of Steel BBC 4 Grierson Award Best Historical Documentary Nomination 2012 World War Two 1942 and Hitler s Soft Underbelly BBC 4 2014 The Long Shadow three part series 1 Remembering and Understanding 2 Ballots and Bullets 3 Us and Them BBC 2 2015 World War Two 1945 and the Wheelchair President BBC 4 2016 Verdun The Sacred Wound BBC Radio 4 2 part series 1 The Battle 2 Loss and Legacy 2017 Balfour s Promised Land BBC Radio 4 on the centenary of the Balfour Declaration 2022 FDR s Four Freedoms BBC Radio 4 Archive on Four 2 Dec 2022 https www bbc co uk programmes m001fm6cReferences edit Interview in The Guardian 2 October 2007 REYNOLDS Prof David James Who s Who Vol 2024 online ed A amp C Black Subscription or UK public library membership required History amp Policy www historyandpolicy org Retrieved 10 March 2023 Interview in The Sunday Telegraph 14 October 2012 Interview in The Guardian 2 October 2007 Timothy R Smith 9 April 2014 David Reynolds wins PEN Hessell Tiltman Prize The Washington Post Retrieved 7 June 2014 BBC website for the radio series America Empire of Liberty The Daily Telegraph the author talks about the radio series External links editProfessor David Reynolds Fellows of the British Academy Author talks about The Long Shadow on YouTube Lecture The Long Shadow The Great War and International Memory 1914 2014 on YouTube via the official channel of Gresham College UK Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title David Reynolds 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