Julia Boyd


Julia Boyd is a British non-fiction author.

Career

The Washington Post called Travellers in the Third Reich "riveting". It was awarded the 2018 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History. Publishers Weekly called it a "fresh, surprising perspective on how Nazi Germany was seen at the time".
The Times called A Village in the Third Reich, authored with Angelika Patel, a "fascinating deep dive into daily life", and The Scotsman, "a masterpiece of historical non-fiction". Publishers Weekly wrote, "Boyd and Patel pose difficult questions about ordinary Germans’ complicity in the horrors of the Holocaust".

Personal life

She was married to the late Sir John Boyd, a diplomat, and later Master of Churchill College, Cambridge. She lives in London.

Works

  • The Story of Furniture, Hamlyn, 1975
  • Hannah Riddell: An Englishwoman in Japan, Tuttle, 1995
  • The Excellent Doctor Blackwell: The Life of the First Woman Physician, Sutton, 2005
  • A Dance with the Dragon: The Vanished World of Peking’s Foreign Colony, I.B. Tauris, 2012
  • Travellers in the Third Reich: The Rise of Fascism through the Eyes of Everyday People, Pegasus, 2018
  • A Village in the Third Reich: How Ordinary Lives were Transformed by the Rise of Fascism, 2022. Cowritten with Angelika Patel.