Graham Stewart



Profile:
Full name: Graham Stewart

Area of interest: Modern history

Journals: The Times

Email: [mailto:mail@graham-stewart.org mail@graham-stewart.org]

Website: GrahamStewart.org

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Representation: Capel & Land

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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

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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

Latest work: Friendship and Betrayal: ambition and the limits of loyalty OCLC 174053571 / ISBN 0297646613 (book review), 2007

Forthcoming: His Finest Hours: Winston Churchill’s War Speeches

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The Times: 'Past notes'
Column remit: Makes historical comparisons with contemporary events: Politics, Society, World Affairs

Section: Features

Role: Columnist

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Email: [mailto:mail@graham-stewart.org mail@graham-stewart.org]

Website: TimesOnline / Graham Stewart

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Day published: Saturday

Regularity: Weekly

Column format:

Average length: 450 words



Articles: 2009

 * 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
 * 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
 * to be a school pupil: not a bad idea'' - the story of Brendan Bracken shows what can happen - 17th January 2009
 * in Vienna were sparked by a film about Rommel'' - Hollywood versions of the ‘good German' are nothing new - 10th January 2009
 * “leap second” and more tinkerings with time'' - a timely look at the problems of clocks and calendars - 3rd January 2009



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 * panto became part of Christmas'' - look at Widow Twankey and think of the Lords of Misrule - 27th December 2008
 * was left to its own chaos'' - An earlier retreat from the Middle East - 20th December 2008
 * 1789 tour was ditched. Bit of a revolution'' - Cricket has fallen foul of political troubles before - 6th December 2008
 * curious case of the presidential pardons'' - we are about to find out which lucky felons made it George Bush's list - 29th November 2008
 * pirates once struck Iceland'' - Bribery was no answer to the coastal raids - 22nd November 2008
 * old soldiers were forgotten'' - It took a public campaign to win help for veterans of the Charge of the Light Brigade - 15th November 2008
 * the BBC banned baskets and fig leaves'' - It's not the first time the airwaves have turned blue - 1st November 2008
 * and boyfriend revived old tradition'' - Past Notes: the number of gay men in Hitler's Brownshirts was well known - 25th October 2008
 * 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
 * was common for women to ‘plead the belly''' - There is nothing new in using childbirth as a route out of prison - 11th October 2008
 * of speeches: the wise and the unwise'' - what have Stephen Harper and Martin Luther King have in common? - 4th October 2008
 * survived the last banking Armageddon'' - The 1931 crash casts a grim shadow over the present financial crisis - 27th September 2008
 * 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
 * trouble with running-mates'' - US presidential candidates have a worrying record for picking partners they don't really know - 6th September 2008
 * feminist who advised the Lion of Judah'' - Ken Livingstone's Venezuelan adventure follows in some surprising footsteps - 30th August 2008
 * 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
 * fragrant fraudster who charmed the Old Bailey'' - The fine art of being an imposter - 16th August 2008
 * 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
 * Johnson family - 14th-century style'' - the Folvilles instigated a huge crime wave in Leicestershire back in 1326 - 9th August 2008

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