Andrew Roberts

Quick Facts

Full Name	Andrew Roberts
Occupation	Historian
Date Of Birth	Jan 13, 1963(1963-01-13)
Age	61
Birthplace	Hammersmith
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	London
Horoscope	Capricorn

Andrew Roberts Biography

Andrew Roberts is one of the most popular and richest Celebrity who was born on January 13, 1963 in Hammersmith, London, United Kingdom. One claim made by Roberts in A History of the English-Speaking Peoples since 1900 was that Harvard historian Caroline Elkins had committed “blood libels against Britain” in her Pulitzer prize-winning book Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya. Elkins was subsequently vindicated when files released by the National Archives showed that abuses were described as “distressingly reminiscent of conditions in Nazi Germany or Communist Russia” by the Solicitor General of the time. The Foreign Secretary William Hague subsequently announced compensation for the first round of victims with statements that the British government “recognises that Kenyans were subjected to torture and other forms of ill-treatment” and “sincerely regrets that these abuses took place” during the Kenya Emergency.

Roberts was born in Hammersmith, west London, the son of Kathleen (née Hillery-Collings) and business executive Simon Roberts. Simon Roberts, from Cobham, Surrey, inherited the Job’s Dairy milk business and also owned the United Kingdom contingent of Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants. His parents would later sell their interest in the aforementioned milk business in 1987. A prolific reader as a child, he soon gained a passion for history, particularly for dramatic works relating to “battles, wars, assassinations and death”.

The first of Roberts’ books was the biography of Neville Chamberlain’s and Winston Churchill’s foreign secretary, Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, entitled The Holy Fox, and published in 1991. Roberts provided a revisionist account of Wood, a one-time Viceroy of India and the Foreign Secretary in Chamberlain’s government. Halifax has been charged with appeasement, along with Chamberlain, but Roberts argues that Halifax in fact began to move his government away from that policy vis-à-vis Hitler’s Germany, following the 1938 Munich Crisis.

Journalist Johann Hari alleged that Roberts’ writings defended the Amritsar massacre, the concentration camps for Afrikaners during the Anglo-Boer War and mass internments in Ireland. Hari also wrote that Roberts addressed the expatriate South African Springbok Club that flies the pre-1994 South African national flag and calls for “the re-establishment of civilised rule throughout the African continent”. Roberts responded by saying that he did not realise the Springbok Club was racist when he took on the speaking engagement.

Roberts studied at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and he went on to chair the Cambridge University Conservative Association. He earned a first class honours B.A. degree in Modern History at Gonville and Caius College in 1985, where he is an honorary senior scholar and honorary PhD. Roberts began his career in corporate finance as an investment banker and private company director with the London merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co., where he worked from 1985 to 1988. He published his first historical book in 1991.

Andrew Roberts Net Worth

Andrew Roberts is one of the richest Historian from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Andrew Roberts 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

His A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900, a sequel to the four volume work of Churchill, was published in September 2006 and won the Intercollegiate Studies Institute Book Award. Masters and Commanders describes how four figures shaped the strategy of the West during the Second World War. It was published in November, 2008 and won the International Churchill Society Book Award and was shortlisted for two other military history book prizes. The Art of War is a two-volume chronological survey of the greatest military commanders in history. It was compiled by a team of historians, including Robin Lane Fox, Tom Holland, John Julius Norwich, Jonathan Sumption and Felipe Fernández-Armesto, working under the general editorship of Roberts.

Andrew Roberts FRHistS FRSL (born 13 January 1963) is a British historian and journalist. He is a Visiting Professor at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, a Roger and Martha Mertz Visiting Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and a Lehrman Institute Distinguished Lecturer at the New York Historical Society. Roberts was educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he earned a first- class degree in Modern History.

In addition, since 1990, Roberts has addressed hundreds of institutional and academic audiences in many countries, including a lecture to George W. Bush at the White House.

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In 1999, Roberts published Salisbury: Victorian Titan, a biography of the Victorian era politician and then Prime Minister Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury. Historian Michael Korda praised the work as “a masterpiece about one of the greatest and most able Tory political figures of the Victorian age”. The book additionally won the Wolfson History Prize and the James Stern Silver Pen Award for Non-Fiction. In September 2001, Napoleon and Wellington, an investigation into the relationship between the two generals, was published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson, and was the subject of the lead review in all but one of Britain’s national newspapers.

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January 2003 saw the publication of Hitler and Churchill: Secrets of Leadership. In the book, which addresses the leadership techniques of Hitler and Churchill, he delivered a rebuttal to many of the assertions made by Clive Ponting and Christopher Hitchens concerning Churchill.