Noel Malcolm

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Sir
Noel Malcolm
FRSL FBA
Born
Noel Robert Malcolm

(1956-12-26) 26 December 1956 (age 68)
Surrey, England
Occupation(s)Historian and journalist
Awards British Academy Medal
Academic background
Alma mater Eton College
Peterhouse, Cambridge
Trinity College, Cambridge
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 .

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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.

Early life and education

Malcolm was born on 26 December 1956. [1] He was educated at Eton College as a King's Scholar and studied history at Peterhouse, Cambridge, between 1974 and 1978. He received his PhD in history while he was at Trinity College, Cambridge. [2]

Career

Malcolm was a Fellow and college lecturer at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, from 1981 to 1988. [3] He was a political columnist (1987–1991), then the foreign editor (1991–1992) of The Spectator , and a political columnist for the Daily Telegraph (1992–1995). [3] He was jointly awarded the T. E. Utley Prize for Political Journalism in 1991.[ citation needed ]

In 1995, he gave up journalism to become a full-time writer. [4] In 1996, he was a Visiting Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, and in 1999 he was a lecturer at Harvard University. [5] He has been a senior research fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, since 2002. [3] He served on the advisory board of the conservative magazine Standpoint . [6]

Malcolm used to be the chairman of the Bosnian Institute, London, [7] and president of the Anglo-Albanian Association. [8]

Honours

Malcolm became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL) in 1997 [9] and a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) in 2001.

He is a Member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosovo, and an honorary fellow of both Peterhouse, Cambridge (since 2010), and Trinity College, Cambridge (since 2011). [3]

In 2013, he was awarded the British Academy Medal for his book Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan. [10]

Malcolm was knighted in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to scholarship, journalism, and European history. [11] In 2016, he was awarded the Presidential Gold Medal of the League of Prizren by the president of Kosovo, Hashim Thaçi. [12]

Works

Books

Malcolm is the author of

Malcolm edited Reason of State, Propaganda, and the Thirty Years War: An Unknown Translation by Thomas Hobbes (Clarendon Press, 2007), The Correspondence of Thomas Hobbes (1994) and Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan (three volumes, Oxford University Press, 2012), for which he was awarded a British Academy Medal.[ citation needed ] He has also contributed more than 40 journal articles or chapters in books since 2002. [3]

Journalism

Malcolm has written many articles for newspapers, magazines and journals. Other than his work for The Spectator, the Daily Telegraph and Standpoint he has had articles published in The Guardian , [15] The Sunday Telegraph , [16] the New York Times , [17] the Washington Times , [18] Time [19] and the Daily Mail , [20] among other publications. He has also contributed book reviews mainly to The Sunday Telegraph. [21] He has contributed to a number of journals including Foreign Affairs [22] and the New York Review of Books . [23] [24]

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ "MALCOLM, Sir Noel Robert". Who's Who 2016. Oxford University Press. November 2015. Retrieved 26 December 2015.
  2. ↑ Malcolm 2000, p. 124.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 All Soul's College 2012.
  4. ↑ Pan Macmillan 2012.
  5. ↑ "Sir Noel Malcolm". britishacacemy.ac.uk. The British Academy.
  6. ↑ Standpoint 2012.
  7. ↑ Bosnian Institute 2012.
  8. ↑ Elsie 2010, p. 14.
  9. ↑ "Malcolm, Sir Noel". Royal Society of Literature. 1 September 2023. Retrieved 1 July 2025.
  10. ↑ "British Academy launches medal for landmark research". British Academy. 14 November 2013. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
  11. ↑ The Times 2013.
  12. ↑ "President Thaçi honors Sir Noel Malcolm with the presidential "Gold Medal of the League of Prizren"". President of the Republic of Kosovo - Hashim Thaçi. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
  13. ↑ Malcolm, Noel (8 July 2020). Rebels, Believers, Survivors: Studies in the History of the Albanians. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-885729-7.
  14. ↑ "Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe". global.oup.com.
  15. ↑ Malcolm 2008.
  16. ↑ Malcolm 2001.
  17. ↑ Malcolm 1999a.
  18. ↑ Malcolm 1999b.
  19. ↑ Malcolm 1998a.
  20. ↑ Malcolm 1996.
  21. ↑ Malcolm 1995.
  22. ↑ Malcolm 1999c.
  23. ↑ Malcolm 1998c.
  24. ↑ Malcolm 2007.

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