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Richard Davenport-Hines
リチャード・デイヴンポート＝ハインズ
Richādo Dēvunpōto-Hainzu
Aliases:
Richard Peter Treadwell Davenport-Hines
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1953-06-21 （London）
- Nationality
- British
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- London
Career
- Occupations
- historian, literary biographer
- Active Years
- 1984-2022
- Affiliations
- Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, Trustee of the London Library (1996-2005)
- Memberships
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (2003), Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (1984), Athenaeum Club, London, Brooks's Club
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Paul's School, London | — | — | — | 1967-1971 | United Kingdom |
| Selwyn College, Cambridge | — | History | PhD | 1972-1977 | United Kingdom |
| London School of Economics | — | Economic History | — | 1982-1986 | United Kingdom |
St Paul's School, London
Period:
1967-1971
Year of Graduation:
1971
Country:
United Kingdom
secondary school
Selwyn College, Cambridge
History
Degree:
PhD
Period:
1972-1977
Year of Graduation:
1977
Country:
United Kingdom
PhD thesis on the history of British armaments companies during 1918–36
London School of Economics
Economic History
Period:
1982-1986
Country:
United Kingdom
Research fellow, headed project on globalisation of pharmaceutical companies
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | Wolfson Prize for History and Biography | Dudley Docker: The Life and Times of a Trade Warrior | — | Wolfson Foundation | joint winner |
| 1986 | Wadsworth Prize for Business History | Dudley Docker: The Life and Times of a Trade Warrior | — | Business Archives Council | winner |
Wolfson Prize for History and Biography
1985
Work:
Dudley Docker: The Life and Times of a Trade Warrior
Organization:
Wolfson Foundation
Result:
joint winner
Wadsworth Prize for Business History
1986
Work:
Dudley Docker: The Life and Times of a Trade Warrior
Organization:
Business Archives Council
Result:
winner
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Auden
1995 BiographyBiography of the poet W. H. Auden.
poetry20th-century literature
Gothic: Four Hundred Years of Excess, Horror, Evil and Ruin
1998 Cultural historyExplores 400 years of Gothic culture.
horrorevilexcess
The Pursuit of Oblivion: A Global History of Narcotics 1500–2000
2001 HistoryGlobal history of narcotics from 1500 to 2000.
narcoticsaddiction
Titanic Lives: Migrants and Millionaires, Conmen and Crew
2012 HistoryLives of passengers and crew on the Titanic.
classmigration
An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo
2013 HistorySocial history of 1960s Britain centered on Profumo affair.
sexclasspower
Bibliography
- Dudley Docker: The Life and Times of a Trade Warrior (1984)
- Markets and Bagmen, Studies in the History of Marketing and British Industrial Performance, 1830–1939 (1986)
- Speculators and Patriots: Essays in Business Biography (1986)
- Business in the Age of Reason (1987)
- Enterprise Management and Innovation (1988)
- British Business in Asia Since 1860 (1989)
- The End of Insularity – Essays in Comparative Business History (1989)
- Business in the Age of Depression & War (1990)
- Capital Entrepreneurs and Profits (1990)
- Sex, Death and Punishment: Attitudes To Sex & Sexuality In Britain Since The Renaissance (1990)
- Glaxo: A History to 1962 (1992)
- The Macmillans (1992)
- Vice: An Anthology (1993)
- Auden (1995)
- Gothic: Four Hundred Years of Excess, Horror, Evil and Ruin (1998)
- The Pursuit of Oblivion: A Global History of Narcotics 1500–2000 (2001)
- A Night at the Majestic: Proust and the Great Modernist Dinner Party of 1922 (2006)
- Ettie: The Intimate Life and Dauntless Spirit of Lady Desborough (2008)
- Titanic Lives: Migrants and Millionaires, Conmen and Crew (2012)
- An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo (2013)
- Universal Man: The Seven Lives of John Maynard Keynes (2015)
- Edward VII: The Cosmopolitan King (2016)
- Enemies Within: Communists, the Cambridge Spies and the Making of Modern Britain (2018)
- Hugh Trevor-Roper, Letters from Oxford: to Bernard Berenson (2006) editor
- Hugh Trevor-Roper, Wartime Journals (2012) editor
- One Hundred Letters from Hugh Trevor-Roper (2014) editor
- John Meade Falkner: Abnormal Romantic (2018)
- Hugh Trevor-Roper, China Journals: Ideology and Intrigue in the 1960s (2020) editor
- Conservative Thinkers from All Souls College, Oxford (2022)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- detailed biographical approachrich historical detail
- Recurring Motifs
- sexclasspowerdeath
Legacy
Prominent British historian and literary biographer. Contributed 169 biographies to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Known for wide-ranging works from business history to cultural history and notable biographies.
Trivia
- Established the Cosmo Davenport-Hines Prize for Poetry at King's College London in memory of his son who died aged 21 in 2008.
- Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford in 2016.