1. David Cannadine is currently the Dodge Professor of History at Princeton University, a visiting professor of history at Oxford University, and the editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
18 Facts About David Cannadine
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David Cannadine was president of the British Academy between 2017 and 2021, the UK's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.
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David Nicholas Cannadine was born in Birmingham on 7 September 1950 and attended King Edward VI Five Ways School.
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David Cannadine was educated at Clare College, Cambridge, where he took a double first in history; at St John's College, Oxford, where he completed his DPhil; and at Princeton University, where he was a Jane Eliza Procter Visiting Fellow.
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David Cannadine was then elected a fellow of Christ's College and appointed to a university lectureship in history.
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David Cannadine has held many other visitorial appointments: at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, at Birkbeck College, London, at the Whitney Humanities Center, Yale, at ANU Canberra, at the NHC North Carolina, at the Huntington Library and at New York University Stern School of Business.
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David Cannadine is the general editor of the Penguin History of Britain and the Penguin History of Europe.
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David Cannadine is currently completing a volume on the history of the Ford Foundation.
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David Cannadine is widely known as a commentator on current events, in newspapers, on the radio and on television; he has been a long-standing contributor to A Point of View, broadcast on BBC Radio 4, as the successor to Alastair Cooke's Letter from America; and he has written and presented a series of programmes on Churchill's Other Lives.
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David Cannadine has been active in attempts to reform and improve the history curriculum in the United Kingdom.
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David Cannadine often contributes to contemporary discussions on the present-day British monarchy.
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Currently, David Cannadine serves as a member of the Bank of England Banknote Character Advisory Committee; he is a trustee of the Rothschild Archive, the Gordon Brown Archive and Gladstone's Library; and of the Library of Birmingham Development Trust, the Royal Academy Trust, Historic Royal Palaces and the Wolfson Foundation.
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David Cannadine has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Fellow of the British Academy, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.
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David Cannadine has been awarded the Lionel Trilling Prize and the Dean's Distinguished Award in the Humanities by Columbia University, the Dickinson Medal by the Newcomen Society, the Minerva Medal of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow, the Norton Medlicott Medal of the Historical Association, and the Blenheim Award of the International Churchill Society.
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David Cannadine holds honorary degrees from the London South Bank University, the University of East Anglia, the University of Birmingham, the University of Worcester, Open University, the University of London, the University of Leicester, Queen's University, Belfast, and Aston University.
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David Cannadine is an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Historical Research, Christ's College, Cambridge, the Historical Association, and Clare College, Cambridge and an Honorary Churchill Fellow of Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri.
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David Cannadine was knighted for "services to scholarship" in 2009.
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David Cannadine was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019.