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Effervescent Adventures with Britannia I. Adventures with Britannia (1995) II. More Adventures with Britannia (1998) III. Still More Adventures with Britannia (2003) IV. Yet More Adventures with Britannia (2005) V. Penultimate Adventures with Britannia (2007) VI. Ultimate Adventures with Britannia (2009) VII. Resurgent Adventures with Britannia (2011) VIII. Irrepressible Adventures with Britannia (2013) IX. Resplendent Adventures with Britannia (2015) X. Effervescent Adventures with Britannia (2017) and and Burnt Orange Britannia (2005)

Table of Contents

Wm. Roger Louis

Richard Davenport-Hines

John D. Fair

Martin Stannard

Patrick French

Susan Napier

Reba Soffer

Joseph Epstein

Boisfeuillet Jones, Jr.

John Prados

Andrew Lownie

Steven Isenberg

S. J. D. Green

Paul Kennedy

Jane Ridley

Steven Weinberg

Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes

Rosemary Hill

Wm. Roger Louis

Barnaby Crowcroft

Caroline Elkins

Michael Holroyd

John M. MacKenzie

Sarah Beaver

Geoffrey Wheatcroft

Kenneth O. Morgan

Sarah Beaver is a Fellow of All Souls College, where, as Bursar, she has been responsible for its administration since 2008. Formerly a civil servant, she spent most of her career working in the Ministry of Defence. After the Falklands crisis, she prepared evidence for a parliamentary inquiry into the handling of the press and public information during the conflict. Her later appointments were as Director General for operations and overseas garrisons, including the Falklands.

Barnaby Crowcroft was educated at the London School of Economics, Yale, and Harvard, where he is currently completing a PhD in the Department of History. His research has been supported by the Social Science Research Council, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the John Clive Memorial Fund. He is the author of articles in publications including the Historical Journal and the Times Literary Supplement.

Richard Davenport-Hines is a former Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. His biographical subjects include W. H. Auden, Marcel Proust, Lady Desborough, and Maynard Keynes. He has edited Hugh Trevor-Ropers wartime journals and his correspondence with Bernard Berenson. Recent books include studies of the Profumo Affair and of the sinking of the Titanic. His latest book is Traitors: Communist Espionage and the Making of Modern Britain (2018).

Caroline Elkins is Professor of History and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, and Visiting Professor of General Management at the Harvard Business School. Her book Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britains Gulag in Kenya was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 2006. She is currently completing a book on violence and the British Empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Joseph Epstein is the author of more than twenty-five books. Two recent works are Frozen in Time (2016), a collection of short stories, and Wind Sprints (2016), a collection of his shorter essays. Snobbery: The American Version was published in 2002. He was the Editor of Phi Beta Kappas The American Scholar magazine, 197498. In 2003 he won the National Humanities Medal of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

John D. Fair, whose career has straddled the fields of British history, physical culture, and the American South, taught at Auburn UniversityMontgomery (197197). His publications include British Interparty Conferences (1980), Harold Temperley (1992), Muscletown USA (1999), The Tifts of Georgia (2010), and Mr. America (2015). He teaches and does research at the Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Texas.

Patrick French is the inaugural Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Ahmedabad University, and Professor for the Public Understanding of the Humanities. He has a visiting position at Cambridge University. His biography of V. S. Naipaul, The World Is What It Is, won the Hawthornden Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2008. He is the author of Younghusband (1994) and is now writing the authorized biography of Doris Lessing.

S. J. D. Green is Professor of Modern History, University of Leeds, and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He gave the Birkbeck Lectures in Ecclesiastical History at the University of Cambridge, 201314; a revised version of the lectures is being prepared for publication. His many books include Religion in the Age of Decline (1996) and The Passing of Protestant England (2011). He is currently completing a narrative history of All Souls, from 1850.

Rosemary Hill is an historian of art and ideas. Her biography of A. W. N. Pugin, Gods Architect (2007), won the Wolfson History Prize. She is a contributing editor to the London Review of Books, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and a member of Historic Englands Blue Plaques Committee. Her current research is on antiquarianism in the Romantic period.

Michael Holroyd is the author of biographies of Lytton Strachey (2 vols., 196768), Augustus John (2 vols., 197475), George Bernard Shaw (4 vols., 198892), and the actors Ellen Terry and Henry Irving (2008). He has been President of the Royal Society of Literature and Chairman of the Society of Authors. In 2007 he was awarded a Knighthood for services to literature. He is married to the novelist Margaret Drabble.

Steven Isenberg was Visiting Professor of Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin for several years. He has taught and lectured at Berkeley, Yale, Davidson, and Oxford. Before that, he was chief of staff to New York mayor John V. Lindsay, publisher of New York News-day, vice president of the Los Angeles Times, executive director of the PEN American Center, and interim president of Adelphi University. He is an Honorary Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford.

Boisfeuillet Jones, Jr., studied at Harvard, 196468, and was President of the Harvard Crimson. As a Rhodes Scholar at Exeter College, Oxford, he earned a D.Phil, in History. At Harvard Law School, he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. He worked at the Washington Post for thirty-two years, rising to become Publisher and CEO. He left the Post to be President and CEO of MacNeil-Lehrer Productions, producer of PBS NewsHour, 201214.

Paul Kennedy is the Dilworth Professor of History at Yale. He has published or edited nineteen books on the history of British foreign policy and Great Power struggles. His best-known work, The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (1987) has been translated into twenty languages. His most recent book, Engineers of Victory (2013), looks at problem solvers during World War II. He is at work on a book about sea power and global transformations, 193945.

Andrew Lownie was educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he was Dunster History Prizeman and President of the Union, and at Edinburgh University. A literary agent, he is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a former Visiting Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge, and President of the Biographers Club. He serves on the Advisory Council of Biographers International Organization. His books include a literary guide to Edinburgh and a life of the writer John Buchan.

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