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Theodore Zeldin

English academic · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Born 1933 · age 93

Theodore Zeldin is a British historian and current Associate Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford. He is the author of A History of French Passions, a quotidian history of the French people, as well as An Intimate History of Humanity.

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1999Fellow of the Royal Society of LiteratureAward1995Commandeur des Arts et des LettresAwardFellow of the British AcademyAward1974Wolfson History PrizeAward1933Born22 August 1933

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Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature1999
Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres1995
Fellow of the British Academy1995
Wolfson History Prize1974
Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Honorary Degree of HEC Paris

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He is also a Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, having previously been its dean for 13 years, and a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Literature.

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Born 1933 · age 93

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