# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-preston
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:02:46.816Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-preston"
name: "Paul Preston"
slug: "paul-preston"
description: "Sir Paul Preston CBE is an English historian and Hispanist, biographer of Francisco Franco, and specialist in Spanish history, in particular the Spanish Civil War, which he has studied for more than 50 years. He is the winner of multiple awards for his books on the Spanish Civil War."
tagline: "British historian"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1946"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump