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    Michael Haag

    03 March 2011

    Michael Haag has written widely on the Egyptian, Classical and Medieval worlds and on the modern Middle East. His works include the much-admired Alexandria: City of Memory (Yale UP), a chronicle of the cosmopolitan city...


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    Peter Hart

    03 March 2011

    Peter Hart is the oral historian at the Imperial War Museum and the author of several acclaimed books about the First World War. He is an internationally acknowledged expert on Gallipoli and has guided British...


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    David Harvey

    03 March 2011

    David Harvey is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the City University of New York Graduate School and former Professor of Geography at Johns Hopkins and Oxford Universities. The author of numerous books, his work is...


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    Natalie Haynes

    03 March 2011

    Natalie Haynes took her Cambridge degree in Classics which she also once taught in public schools. She is an award-winning comic, and a regular panellist on the BBC’s Newsnight Review, Saturday Review and Front Row....


  • David Hendy

    David Hendy

    22 January 2013

    David Hendy is ‘Professor of Media and Communication at the University of Sussex. His books include Life on Air: a History of Radio Four, which won the 2008 History Today-Longman Book of the Year Award...


  • Jeffrey Herbst

    Jeffrey Herbst

    28 November 2011

    Dr Jeffrey Herbst is the President of Colgate University and an accomplished scholar of international...


  • Judith Hermann

    Judith Hermann

    06 June 2011

    Judith Hermann was born in Berlin in 1970. She is the author of The Summer House, Later and Nothing but Ghosts, which have received a number of literary awards including the Kleist Prize. She lives...


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    Susan Hill

    03 March 2011

    Susan Hill has been a professional writer for over 50 years. Her books have won the Whitbread, and John Llewellyn Prizes, and the W. Somerset Maugham Award and been shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Her...


  • Rosemary Hill

    Rosemary Hill

    03 March 2011

    Rosemary Hill is a writer and critic who specialises in literary and cultural history. Her biography of A W N Pugin, God’s Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain, appeared in 2007. It won...


  • Vernon Hill

    Vernon Hill

    19 September 2012

    Vernon Hill was the founder of the hugely successful Commerce Bank in the US and now Metro Bank in the UK, Britain’s first new high street bank for over a century. He is one of...



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