Erica Benner (born 11 August 1962) is a British political philosopher.
Born in Tokyo and raised in Japan and the United Kingdom, she held academic posts at St Antony's College, Oxford, the London School of Economics, and Yale University. She was awarded a DPhil by Oxford University in 1993.
She is the author of the books Really Existing Nationalisms (Oxford University Press, 1995), Machiavelli's Ethics (Princeton University Press, 2009), Machiavelli's Prince: A New Reading (Oxford University Press, 2013) and Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli's Lifelong Quest for Freedom (Penguin Allen Lane, 2017). [1] Be Like the Fox was described by Terry Eagleton as "lively, compulsively readable biography", [2] chosen by Julian Baggini as one of his picks for The Guardian's best books of 2017 list, [3] and shortlisted for the 2018 Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography. [4] In 2024, Benner's latest book, Adventures in Democracy, was published. [5]
Lady Antonia Margaret Caroline Fraser, is a British author of history, novels, biographies and detective fiction. She is the widow of the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Harold Pinter (1930–2008), and prior to his death was also known as Lady Antonia Pinter.
Francis Aungier Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford,, known to his family as Frank Longford and styled Lord Pakenham from 1945 to 1961, was a British politician and social reformer. A member of the Labour Party, he was one of its longest-serving politicians. He held cabinet positions on several occasions between 1947 and 1968. Longford was politically active until his death in 2001. A member of an old, landed Anglo-Irish family, the Pakenhams, he was one of the few aristocratic hereditary peers ever to serve in a senior capacity within a Labour government.
Elizabeth Pakenham, Countess of Longford,, better known as Elizabeth Longford, was a British historian. She was a member of the Royal Society of Literature and was on the board of trustees of the National Portrait Gallery in London. She is best known as a historian, especially for her biographies of 19th-century figures including Queen Victoria (1964), Lord Byron (1976) and the Duke of Wellington (1969).
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is an Indian scholar, literary theorist, and feminist critic. She is a University Professor at Columbia University and a founding member of the establishment's Institute for Comparative Literature and Society.
Terence Francis Eagleton is an English philosopher, literary theorist, critic, and public intellectual. He is currently Distinguished Professor of English Literature at Lancaster University.
Amit Chaudhuri is a novelist, poet, essayist, literary critic, editor, singer, and music composer from India.
David Walter Runciman, 4th Viscount Runciman of Doxford,, is an English academic and podcaster who until 2024 taught politics and history at the University of Cambridge, where he was Professor of Politics. From October 2014 to October 2018 he was also head of the Department of Politics and International Studies. In April 2024 he decided to resign his position at the university to focus on his podcast full-time. He was subsequently made Honorary Professor of Politics.
Fiona Ruth Sampson, Born 1963 is a British poet, writer, editor, translator and academic who was the first woman editor of Poetry Review since Muriel Spark. She received a MBE for services to literature in 2017.
The Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography was established in 2003 in memory of Elizabeth Longford (1906-2002), the British author, biographer and historian. The £5,000 prize is awarded annually for a historical biography published in the preceding year.
Anthony John McGowan is an English author of books for children, teenagers and adults. He is the winner of the 2020 CILIP Carnegie Medal for Lark.
Giles E.H. Tremlett is a historian, author and journalist based in Madrid, Spain.
Rosemary Hill is an English writer and historian.
Northeastern University – London is a public university in London, England. It was founded in 2010 as New College of the Humanities by the philosopher A. C. Grayling, who became its first Master. The college originally specialized in the humanities, social sciences, and master's degrees at the intersection of the humanities and technology. In February 2019 the college was acquired by Northeastern University, a private American research university based in Boston, Massachusetts, and rebranded as NCH at Northeastern. A year later, in February 2020, NCH at Northeastern was granted its own taught degree awarding powers. It was awarded university title and changed its name to "Northeastern University – London" after regulatory approval by the Office for Students in July 2022.
Erica Chenoweth is an American political scientist, professor of public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She is known for her research work on nonviolent civil resistance movements.
Why Marx Was Right is a 2011 non-fiction book by the British academic Terry Eagleton about the 19th-century philosopher Karl Marx and the schools of thought, collectively known as Marxism, that arose from his work. Written for laypeople, Why Marx Was Right outlines ten objections to Marxism that they may hold and aims to refute each one in turn. These include arguments that Marxism is irrelevant owing to changing social classes in the modern world, that it is deterministic and utopian, and that Marxists oppose all reforms and believe in an authoritarian state.
Frances Wilson is an English author, academic, and critic.
Katherine Rundell is an English author and academic. She is the author of Impossible Creatures, named Waterstones Book of the Year for 2023. She is also the author of Rooftoppers, which in 2015 won both the overall Waterstones Children's Book Prize and the Blue Peter Book Award for Best Story, and was short-listed for the Carnegie Medal. She is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and has appeared as an expert guest on BBC Radio 4 programmes including Start the Week, Poetry Please, Seriously.... and Private Passions.
John Bew is Professor in History and Foreign Policy at King's College London and from 2013 to 2014 held the Henry A. Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations at the John W. Kluge Center.
Fay Bound Alberti is a British cultural historian of gender, emotion and medicine, and Professor of Modern History and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at King's College London, where she is PI of Interface and Director of the Centre for Technology and the Body. She was previously Professor of Modern History at the University of York. Bound Alberti is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS) and previously foundation future leader at the Foundation for Science and Technology.
Leah Broad is a British writer, broadcaster, and researcher at Christ Church, Oxford. She was awarded the 2015 Observer/Anthony Burgess prize for contemporary British arts journalism and was a BBC New Generation Thinker in 2016 She is a trustee of the William Alwyn Foundation. Her writing focuses on the history of women in the arts. Her group biography, Quartet, published by Faber and Faber, won the Royal Philharmonic Society's Storytelling Prize, won the Presto Music Book of the Year award, was shortlisted for the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography prize, and was awarded a Kirkus star.