British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Professor Peter Hennessy

Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History, Queen Mary, University of London

Year Elected: 2003

His field of research is the history of Britain since 1945: economic, social, political, constitu-tional and governmental. He is the outstanding and unrivalled contemporary historian of our time, and in his work created and defined the field.