Noel Malcolm | |
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| Born | Noel Robert Malcolm 26 December 1956 Surrey, England |
| Occupation(s) | Historian and journalist |
| Awards | British Academy Medal |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Eton College Peterhouse, Cambridge Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
| Sub-discipline | |
| Institutions | Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge All Souls College, Oxford |
Sir Noel Robert Malcolm, FRSL, FBA (born 26 December 1956) is an English political journalist, historian and academic who is a senior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. A King's Scholar at Eton College, Malcolm read history at Peterhouse, Cambridge, and received his doctorate in history from Trinity College, Cambridge. He was a Fellow and College Lecturer of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, before becoming a political and foreign affairs journalist for The Spectator and the Daily Telegraph.
He stepped away from journalism in 1995 to become a writer and academic, being appointed as a Visiting Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, for two years. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL) in 1997 and a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) in 2001. He was knighted in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to scholarship, journalism, and European history.