Bernard Porter
Bernard John Porter is a British historian and academic. He is Emeritus Professor of Modern History at Newcastle University.
Porter read history at Corpus Christi [College, Cambridge]. After receiving his BA, MA, and PhD from Corpus, he took a position as a research fellow at his old college before moving to the University of Hull to become a senior lecturer in modern history. Since 1992, he has been an Emeritus Professor at Newcastle. He is perhaps best known for his most recent book, Absent-Minded Imperialists, published in 2004 which sparked a historiographical debate with John Mackenzie on the place of imperialist sentiment within British popular culture.