Andrew Roberts, Baron Roberts of Belgravia

Andrew Roberts, Baron Roberts of Belgravia, FRSL FRHistS (born 13 January 1963), is an English popular historian, journalist and member of the House of Lords. He is the 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. He served as a trustee of the National Portrait Gallery from 2013 to 2021.

The Right Honourable
The Lord Roberts of Belgravia
FRSL FRHistS
Lord Roberts in 2023
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Assumed office
1 November 2022
Life peerage
Personal details
Born (1963-01-13) 13 January 1963
Hammersmith, London, England
Political partyConservative
Spouses
  • Camilla Henderson
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    (m. 1995; div. 2001)โ€‹
  • Susan Gilchrist
EducationGonville and Caius College, Cambridge (BA, PhD)
Occupation
  • Historian
  • journalist
AwardsWolfson History Prize (2000)
Websiteandrew-roberts.net

Roberts' historical research has focused mostly on English-speaking nations, particularly those closely tied socially to the United Kingdom such as the United States. As an author, Roberts is well-known internationally for his 2009 non-fiction work The Storm of War, which covers socio-political factors of the Second World War such as Adolf Hitler's rise to power and the administrative organisation of Nazi Germany. The work received the British Army Military Book of the Year Award for 2010 as well. It achieved commercial success, reaching the No. 2 slot on The Sunday Times best-seller list. Much of Roberts' later work, including his 2014 and 2018 biographies of Napoleon Bonaparte and of Winston Churchill, has been widely praised. Roberts' public commentary has additionally appeared in several UK-based publications such as The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator, with his support for Atlanticist views in terms of international relations.

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