27 Facts About Noel Malcolm

Noel Malcolm was a Fellow and College Lecturer of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, before becoming a political and foreign affairs journalist for The Spectator and the Daily Telegraph.

Noel Malcolm stepped away from journalism in 1995 to become a writer and academic, being appointed as a Visiting Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, for two years.

Noel Malcolm became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1997 and a Fellow of the British Academy in 2001.

Noel Malcolm was knighted in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to scholarship, journalism, and European history.

Noel Malcolm was educated at Eton College as a King's Scholar and studied history at Peterhouse, Cambridge, between 1974 and 1978.

Noel Malcolm received his PhD in history while he was at Trinity College, Cambridge.

Noel Malcolm was a Fellow and college lecturer at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, from 1981 to 1988.

Noel Malcolm was a political columnist, then the foreign editor of The Spectator, and a political columnist for the Daily Telegraph.

Noel Malcolm was jointly awarded the T E Utley Prize for Political Journalism in 1991.

Noel Malcolm served on the advisory board of the conservative magazine Standpoint.

Noel Malcolm used to be the chairman of the Bosnian Institute, London, and president of the Anglo-Albanian Association.

Noel Malcolm became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1997 and a Fellow of the British Academy in 2001.

Noel Malcolm is a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers.

Noel Malcolm is a Member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosovo, and an honorary fellow of both Peterhouse, Cambridge, and Trinity College, Cambridge.

Noel Malcolm was knighted in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to scholarship, journalism, and European history.

Noel Malcolm edited Reason of State, Propaganda, and the Thirty Years War: An Unknown Translation by Thomas Hobbes, The Correspondence of Thomas Hobbes and Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan, for which he was awarded a British Academy Medal.

Noel Malcolm has contributed more than 40 journal articles or chapters in books since 2002.

Noel Malcolm has written many articles for newspapers, magazines and journals.

Noel Malcolm has contributed book reviews mainly to The Sunday Telegraph.

Noel Malcolm has contributed to a number of journals including Foreign Affairs and the New York Review of Books.

Noel Malcolm responded that Djilas had not produced any evidence to counter the evidence in the book, and had instead resorted to belittling both Noel Malcolm and his work, including the use of personal slurs and patronising language.

Noel Malcolm claimed that Malcolm was "partisan" and complained that the book made a "transparent attempt to prove that the main Serbian myths are false".

Noel Malcolm responded in the same journal in early 2000, asserting that the book challenged both Albanian and Serbian myths about Kosovo, but that there were more Serbian myths about Kosovo than Albanian ones and this explained the greater coverage of Serbian myths in the book.

Noel Malcolm observed that Emmert's perspective and work were largely within the framework of Serbian historiography, and that that was the reason for Emmert's assertion that Malcolm was "partisan".

Noel Malcolm responded that there were no proper Serbian archives for that period of history, but noted that he had studied a large number of works by Serbian and Montenegrin authors.

Noel Malcolm has been criticized for being "anti-Serbian" and selective with sources, while other critics have concluded that "his arguments are unconvincing".

The majority of the documents that Noel Malcolm used were written by adversaries of the Ottoman state or by officials with limited experience of the region.