Linda Colley is currently Shelby M C Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton University and a long-term fellow in history at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Uppsala.
15 Facts About Linda Colley
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Linda Colley previously held chairs at Yale University and at the London School of Economics.
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Linda Colley took her first degree in history at Bristol University before completing a doctorate on the Tory Party in the eighteenth century at the University of Cambridge, supervised by John H Plumb.
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Linda Colley subsequently held a Research Fellowship at Girton College, a joint lectureship in history at Newnham and King's Colleges, and in 1979 was appointed the first woman Fellow at Christ's College, where she is an Honorary Fellow.
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In March 1993, Linda Colley gave a half-hour Opinions lecture televised on Channel 4 and subsequently published in The Times as "Britain must move with the times to be great again".
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In 1998, Linda Colley accepted a Senior Leverhulme Research Professorship in History at the London School of Economics.
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Linda Colley spent the next five years researching the experiences of thousands of Britons taken captive in North America, South Asia, and the Mediterranean and North Africa between 1600 and 1850.
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Linda Colley authored Namier, a reappraisal of the Polish-born and Zionist historian Lewis Namier, and The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History.
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In 1999, Linda Colley was invited to deliver the Prime Minister's Millennium Lecture at 10 Downing Street in London.
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In 1999, Linda Colley was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.
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Linda Colley is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the Royal Historical Society, and the Academia Europaea.
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In 2009, she was awarded a CBE for services to history and, in 2022, Linda Colley was made a DBE.
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Linda Colley has served on the board of the British Library, the council of Tate Gallery of British Art, the board and trustees of Princeton University Press, the research committee of the British Museum.
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Linda Colley writes occasionally for the London Guardian, the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books.
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Linda Colley was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2009 and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2022 Birthday Honours for services to history.