Edwin James Lawrence most commonly known as Lawrence James, is an English academic, notable for his works as a writer

Writer

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 and historian

Historian

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. He has written several works of popular history about the British Empire

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. He has written for the Daily Mail

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, the Times

The Times

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 and the Literary Review

Literary Review

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.

Education

James graduated with a BA in English & History from the University of York

University of York

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 in 1966.

He subsequently undertook a research degree at Merton College, Oxford, and following a career as a teacher he became a full time writer in 1985.

Notable works

• "Crimea 1854-56: The War With Russia from Contemporary Photographs", 1981
• "The Savage Wars : British Campaigns in Africa 1870-1920", 1985
• "Mutiny: In the British and Commonwealth Forces, 1797-1956", 1987
• Imperial Rearguard: The Last Wars of Empire, 1988
• The Golden Warrior: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia, 1990
• Imperial Warrior: The Life and Times of Field Marshal Viscount Allenby, 1993
• The Rise and Fall of the Oliver brothers, 1989–Present
• Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India, 1997
• The Illustrated Rise and Fall of the British Empire, 1999
• Warrior Race: A History of the British at War, 2001
• The Iron Duke: A Military Biography of Wellington, 2002
• The Middle Class, 2006
• "Aristocrats: Power, Grace and Decadence - Britain's Great Ruling Classes from 1066 to the Present", 2009

He is also well known for his work on the Christmas tales.

External links

• Profile
• "In the Realm of Peers" Ferdinand Mount, The Wall Street Journal
  The Wall Street Journal
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