Piers Brendon

Piers Brendon (born 21 December1940, Stratton, Cornwall) is a British writer, known for historical and biographical works.

He was Keeper of the Archives at The Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. [ [http://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/archives/about/history.php Churchill College : Churchill Archives Centre: The story so far ] ] , from 1995 to 2001, taking over from Correlli Barnett. He was succeeded by Allen Packwood.

Works

*"Hurrell Froude and the Oxford Movement" (1974)
*"Hawker of Morwenstow - Portrait of a Victorian Eccentric" (1975)
*"A Quest of the Sangraal", "Cornish Ballads & Other Poems", Robert Stephen Hawker (1975) editor
*"Eminent Edwardians" (1979) Houghton Mifflin Company, ISBN 0-395-29195-X
*"The Life and Death of The Press Barons" (1983)
*"Winston Churchill: A Brief Life" (1984)
*"Ike - the Life and Times of Dwight D. Eisenhower" (1986)
*"Our Own Dear Queen" (1986)
*"Thomas Cook - 150 Years of Popular Tourism" (1991)
*"The Age of Reform 1820-1850" (1994)
*"The Motoring Century: Story of the Royal Automobile Club" (1997)
*"The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s" (2000) ISBN 0-375-70808-1
*"The Windsors - A Dynasty Revealed 1917-2000" (2000) with Phillip Whitehead
*"The Decline and Fall of the British Empire" (2007)

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External links

* [http://janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0014%2FBREN]