Bill Schwarz

Bill Schwarz
Born (1951-12-22) 22 December 1951 (age 72)
NationalityEnglish
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of York
Academic work
Discipline
InstitutionsQueen Mary University of London
Main interestsPostcolonial history
Notable worksMemories of Empire: The White Man's World (2011)

Bill Schwarz (born 1951) is an English historian,[1] who is a Professor in the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary, University of London, his research focusing on postcolonial history.[2] Schwarz is the author of Memories of Empire: The White Man's World, which was Book of the Year at the Longman/History Today Awards in 2013. He is literary executor, with Catherine Hall, of cultural theorist Stuart Hall, whose posthumously published memoir Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands was co-written with Schwarz.[3] He is an editor of History Workshop Journal, and General Editor (with Catherine Hall) of the Duke University Press series "The Writings of Stuart Hall".[2]

  1. ^ Himmelfarb, Gertrude (2004). The New History and the Old: Critical Essays and Reappraisals (rev. ed.). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press. p. 246. ISBN 978-0-674-01384-1.
  2. ^ a b "Bill Schwarz, BA (York), Professor of English", Queen Mary, University of London.
  3. ^ "Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands", Duke University Press, April 2017.