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Linda Colley, Lady Cannadine, CBE (born 1949) is a British historian, widely known for
her 1992 study Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707–1837,
which explored the development of Britishness following the 1707 Acts of
Union. She is currently Shelby M. C. Davis 1958 Professor of
History at Princeton University. She became a
well-known figure with a lecture Britishness in the 21st
Century in December 1999, in the series of Millennium Lectures
hosted by Tony and Cherie Blair.
She was an undergraduate at Bristol
University, and worked on a doctorate at the University of Cambridge
supervised by John
H. Plumb. She became a Fellow of Christ's College,
Cambridge, before taking up a post at Yale University
in 1982, later from 1992 being Richard M. Colgate Professor of
History there. From 1998 she was Senior Leverhulme Research
Professorship in History, at the London School of Economics,
moving to Princeton, New Jersey in 2003.
She writes for The Guardian and featured in the BBC documentary, The
Power of Nightmares. The New York Times named her
book The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh one of the "Ten Best
Books of the Year" for 2007.
Linda Colley married the historian David Cannadine in 1982.
Colley was appointed Commander of the Order of the British
Empire (CBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours, in which list her
husband was knighted.[1]
Works
- In Defiance of Oligarchy: the Tory Party 1714–1760
(1982)
- Crown Pictorial: Art and the British Monarchy
(1990)
- Lewis Namier (1989)
- Britons: Forging the Nation 1707–1837 (1992)
- Captives: Britain, Empire and the World 1600–1850
(2002)
- The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh (2007)
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