11 Facts About Philip Mansel

Philip Mansel was born on 1951 and is a historian of courts and cities, and the author of a number of books about the history of France and the Ottoman Empire.

Philip Mansel was born in London in 1951 and educated at Eton College, Balliol College, Oxford, and obtained a doctorate at University College London in 1978.

Philip Mansel has lived in Paris, Istanbul and Beirut and now lives in London.

In 1995, Philip Mansel was a co-founder of the Society for Court Studies, together with David Starkey, Robert Oresko and Simon Thurley.

Philip Mansel is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the Royal Society of Literature, the Institute of Historical Research, and the Royal Asiatic Society, and president of the Conseil Scientifique of the Centre de Recherche du Chateau de Versailles.

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Philip Mansel was awarded the London Library Life in Literature prize in 2012.

Philip Mansel has lectured all over the world – including the United States, France, Germany, Italy and Turkey – and has made a number of appearances on radio and television, including in the two-part Channel 4 documentary Harem and in Versailles.

Philip Mansel has been interviewed on French, Belgian, Turkish and Lebanese television.

Philip Mansel is a trustee of the Levantine Heritage Foundation.

Philip Mansel is actively involved in the Kimmeridge Project, whose objective is to provide a secure and permanent home for the scientifically valuable Etches Fossil Collection, in a world class facility in Kimmeridge.

In 1995 Philip Mansel started a campaign to save Clavell Tower, a ruined folly of 1831 which threatened to fall over the cliff above Kimmeridge Bay.