Richard English
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Richard Ludlow English[1] CBE FBA MRIA FRSE FRHistS (born 1963) is a Northern Irish historian and political scientist from Northern Ireland. He was born in Belfast.
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Born | Richard Ludlow English 1963 (age 60–61) Belfast, Northern Ireland |
Alma mater | Keble College, Oxford (BA) Keele University (PhD) |
Notable works | Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA (2003) Irish Freedom: The History of Nationalism in Ireland (2006) Writing career |
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He studied as an undergraduate at Keble College, Oxford, and subsequently at Keele University, where he was awarded a PhD in History. He was first employed by the Politics Department at Queen's University Belfast in 1990 and became a professor in 1999. In 2011, he took up an appointment at the University of St Andrews but five years later returned to Queen's University Belfast as pro-vice chancellor for internationalisation and engagement.[2]
His father, Donald English (1930–1998), was a prominent Methodist preacher.