Paul Addison | |
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 Portrait photograph | |
| Born | 3 May 1943 Whittington, Staffordshire, England |
| Died | 21 January 2020 (aged 76) Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Spouse |
Rosy Sheehan (m. 1979) |
| Children | 2 |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
| Doctoral advisor | A.J.P. Taylor |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Political history |
| Sub-discipline | 20th Century Britain and World War II |
| Institutions | University of Edinburgh |
| Notable students | Gordon Brown |
| Notable works | The Road to 1945 (1975) |
Paul Addison, FRSE (born Paul Addison Wilson Walker) (3 May 1943 – 21 January 2020) was a British historian known for his research on the political history of Britain during the Second World War and the post-war period. Addison was part of the first generation of academic historians to study the conflict and is most notable for The Road to 1945 (1975) which traced the origins of the post-war consensus into the wartime period.