Hugh Brogan

Hugh Brogan

Denis Hugh Vercingetorix Brogan, born 20 March 1936, known as Hugh Brogan, is a British historian and biographer.

Early life

The son of Sir Denis Brogan, he was educated at St Faith's School, Cambridge, Repton School, and St John's College, Cambridge, graduating BA in 1959 and MA in 1964. [http://www.xreferplus.com/entry.jsp?xrefid=6086927 BROGAN, Prof. (Denis) Hugh (Vercingetorix)] in Who's Who 2007 online (accessed 22 October 2007)]

Career

Brogan was on the staff of The Economist from 1960 to 1963, and was elected a Harkness Fellow in 1962, then was a fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, from 1963 to 1974. He was then part of the department of history at the University of Essex from 1974 to 1998, first as a lecturer, then a reader, and finally as R. A. Butler Professor of History from 1992 to 1998.

Major publications

* "Tocqueville" (1973)
* "The Times Reports The American Civil War" (1975)
* "The Life of Arthur Ransome" (1984)
* "The Longman History of the United States of America" (1985, reprinted as "The Penguin History of the United States of America", 1990)
* "Mowgli's Sons: Kipling and Baden-Powell's Scouts" (1987)
* " _fr. Correspondance et Conversations d'Alexis de Tocqueville et Nassau William Senior", (1991, with Anne P. Kerr)
* "American Presidential Families" [with Charles Mosley] (1993)* "Kennedy" (1996)
* "Signalling from Mars: the letters of Arthur Ransome" (1997, ed.)
* "Alexis de Tocqueville: a biography" (2006)

References

External links

* [http://www.essex.ac.uk/history/staff/brogan.shtm Brogan's staff page at the University of Essex]
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