Graham Stewart

Profile: Full name: Graham Stewart Area of interest: Modern history Journals/Organisation: The Times Email: mail@graham-stewart.org Personal website: http://www.graham-stewart.org/index.php Website: Blog: Representation: Capel & Land Networks: http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/graham-stewart/4/702/962

Biography: About: Joined The Times in 2000 as a leader writer, then commissioned to write volume seven of the official history of the newspaper. Covering the years 1981 to 2002, it was subtitled The Murdoch Years and greatly contributed to the debate about Rupert Murdoch’s role in the British media. Between 2005 and 2010, Graham wrote the weekly “Past Notes” column for The Times on Saturdays, drawing historical comparisons with contemporary events. He also regularly reviews books for The Spectator and the Literary Review. See graham-stewart.org biography Education: Stewart's Melville College; St Andrews University: Modern History; St John's College, Cambridge: Modern British History PhD Career: Assistant and researcher to Alan Clark - researched: The Conservative Party and the Nation State 1922-1997 ISBN 029781849X; Joined The Times in 2000 as a leader writer and was commissioned to write volume seven of The Times' official history; regular book reviewer for The Spectator and the Literary Review; written the 'Past Notes' column at The Times since November 2005 Current position/role: Editor at Critical Reaction, see here also writes/written for: Other roles/Main role: Other activities: Disclosures: Viewpoints/Insight: Broadcast media: Video: Controversy/Criticism: Awards/Honours: Scoops: Other: Member of Sons of the Thames Rowing Club

Books & Debate: Burying Caesar: The Churchill-Chamberlain Rivalry, 1999 (Overlook TP 2003) ISBN 1585673986 The History of the Times: The Murdoch Years, 2005 (HarperCollins) ISBN 0007184387 Friendship and Betrayal: ambition and the limits of loyalty OCLC 174053571 / ISBN 0297646613 (book review), 2007 Latest work: His Finest Hours: Winston Churchill’s War Speeches Speaking/Appearances: Debate:

The Times: Column name: 'Past notes' - column ended Remit/Info: Makes historical comparisons with contemporary events: Politics, Society, World Affairs Section: Features Role: Columnist Pen-name: Email: mail@graham-stewart.org Website: TimesOnline / Graham Stewart Commissioning editor: Day published: Saturday Regularity: Weekly Column format: Average length: 450 words

Articles: The Tories will jilt Tracey Emin and go back to Maggie Thatcher - This is a political wooing that is bound to end in tears - 5th May Terrorists had cricketers in their sights before - Back in the 1920s the Irish Republican Army well understood the symbolic power of leather on willow - 7th March 2009 Politicians mourning for their children - Only once in the past hundred years has a Prime Minister and Opposition Leader grieved for the loss of children in quick succession - 28th February 2009 A boring fate, but it could be worse - Ex-RBS boss Sir Fred Goodwin and the former chief of HBOS have a lifetime of uncomfortable conversations ahead of them - 21st February 2009 We shall not see their like again - That sporting records in different eras or separate sports are not comparable does not end the debate over who is 'the greatest' - 14th February 2009 Improbable conversions - Who would have imagined the notorious 'Doctor Death' of Mauthausen concentration camp fleeing to Cairo and converting to Islam? - 7th February 2009 Starbucks’ mermaid is on the rocks - With profits plunging and branches closing, it seems the coffee-shop chain may have overestimated the roasted bean's appeal - 31st January 2009 Insult laws in a modern world - Many may think Thailand's laws against insulting the monarch are too feudal. They should not be too smugly European about it - 24th January 2009 Pretending to be a school pupil: not a bad idea - the story of Brendan Bracken shows what can happen - 17th January 2009 Riots in Vienna were sparked by a film about Rommel - Hollywood versions of the ‘good German' are nothing new - 10th January 2009 The “leap second” and more tinkerings with time - a timely look at the problems of clocks and calendars - 3rd January 2009 How panto became part of Christmas - look at Widow Twankey and think of the Lords of Misrule - 27th December 2008 Aden was left to its own chaos - An earlier retreat from the Middle East - 20th December 2008 The 1789 tour was ditched. Bit of a revolution - Cricket has fallen foul of political troubles before - 6th December 2008 The curious case of the presidential pardons - we are about to find out which lucky felons made it George Bush's list - 29th November 2008 Barbary pirates once struck Iceland - Bribery was no answer to the coastal raids - 22nd November 2008 When old soldiers were forgotten - It took a public campaign to win help for veterans of the Charge of the Light Brigade - 15th November 2008 When the BBC banned baskets and fig leaves - It's not the first time the airwaves have turned blue - 1st November 2008 Haider and boyfriend revived old tradition - Past Notes: the number of gay men in Hitler's Brownshirts was well known - 25th October 2008 In 1931, banks were top of Labour's hit list - Financiers were a target for being too conservative, now they have been nationalised for not being conservative enough - 18th October 2008 It was common for women to ‘plead the belly' - There is nothing new in using childbirth as a route out of prison - 11th October 2008 Plagiarising of speeches: the wise and the unwise - what have Stephen Harper and Martin Luther King have in common? - 4th October 2008 We survived the last banking Armageddon - The 1931 crash casts a grim shadow over the present financial crisis - 27th September 2008 Remember when coal was going to run out? - in the mid-Victorian period they thought stocks of the black stuff would be exhausted by 1900 - 13th September 2008 The trouble with running-mates - US presidential candidates have a worrying record for picking partners they don't really know - 6th September 2008 The feminist who advised the Lion of Judah - Ken Livingstone's Venezuelan adventure follows in some surprising footsteps - 30th August 2008 A president in the family can be bad news - It cannot be easy having a sibling who may become the world's most powerful man - 23rd August 2008 The fragrant fraudster who charmed the Old Bailey - The fine art of being an imposter - 16th August 2008 Look on King's Lynn, ye mighty, and despair - Like Liverpool, the Norfolk port used to be a great commercial centre. The lesson of history is you can't buck geography - 15th August 2008 The Johnson family - 14th-century style - the Folvilles instigated a huge crime wave in Leicestershire back in 1326 - 9th August 2008 archive

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