Andrew Roberts, Baron Roberts of Belgravia

The Right Honourable
The Lord Roberts of Belgravia
FRSL FRHistS
Lord Roberts in 2023
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
Incumbent
Assumed office
1 November 2022
Life peerage
Personal details
Born (1963-01-13) 13 January 1963 (age 61)
Hammersmith, London, England
Political partyConservative
Spouses
  • Camilla Henderson
    ​
    ​
    (m. 1995; div. 2001)​
    [1]
  • Susan Gilchrist
EducationGonville and Caius College, Cambridge (BA, PhD)
Occupation
  • Historian
  • journalist
AwardsWolfson History Prize (2000)
Websiteandrew-roberts.net

Andrew Roberts, Baron Roberts of Belgravia, FRSL FRHistS[2] (born 13 January 1963),[3] is an English popular historian, journalist and member of the House of Lords.[4] He is the Roger and Martha Mertz Visiting Research Fellow in the Hoover Institution in Stanford University and a Lehrman Institute Distinguished Lecturer in the New York Historical Society. He was a trustee of the National Portrait Gallery from 2013 to 2021.[5][6]

Roberts' historical research has focused mostly on English-speaking nations, particularly those closely tied socially to the United Kingdom such as the United States.[7] As an author, Roberts is well-known internationally for his 2009 non-fiction work The Storm of War,[8][9] 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.[8] 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.

  1. ^ "Roberts, Andrew, (born 13 Jan. 1963), writer". Who's Who. 2007. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U32682.
  2. ^ Roberts, Andrew (13 May 2009). "How Torture Helped Win WWII". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 14 September 2018.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference observer was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "Contact information for Lord Roberts of Belgravia - MPs and Lords - UK Parliament".
  5. ^ "Andrew Roberts appointed as a trustee of the National Portrait Gallery". Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport and National Portrait Gallery. 30 May 2013. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
  6. ^ "The Prime Minister reappoints a trustee of the National Portrait Gallery". Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport and National Portrait Gallery. 21 April 2017. Retrieved 15 October 2022.
  7. ^ "Going out in the midday sun". The Economist. 2 November 2006. Retrieved 6 December 2022.
  8. ^ a b "Esteemed Military Historian to Lecture at UM". University of Montana. 2 October 2013. Archived from the original on 27 April 2019. Retrieved 17 March 2015.
  9. ^ "The Storm of War". Uncommon Knowledge. 6 January 2012. Archived from the original on 12 December 2021. Retrieved 17 March 2015.