Michael D. Biddiss
Michael Denis Biddiss is emeritus professor of history at the University of Reading. He specialises in the history of the development of racist ideology, and the history of medicine.
Early life
Michael Denis Biddiss was born in 1942. He was educated at St Joseph's Academy, Blackheath, and Queens' College, Cambridge, where he received a first in Part II of the historical tripos in 1964.
Career
Biddiss was formerly a fellow of Downing College, Cambridge. He has been professor of history at the University of Reading since 1979, and was dean of letters and social sciences from 1982 to 1985. He was president of the Historical Association from 1991 to 1994. He specialises in the history of the development of racist ideology.
The age of the masses: Ideas and society in Europe since 1870. Penguin, 1977. Father of racist ideology: The social and political thought of Count Gobineau. Weybright & Talley, New York, 1970. Gobineau: Selected political writings. Jonathan Cape, London, 1970. Thatcherism: Personality and politics. Macmillan, Basingstoke, 1987. Images of race. Leicester University Press, Leicester, 1979. The uses and abuses of antiquity. Peter Lang, 1999. Themes in modern European history, 1890–1945. Routledge, 2009. The Wiley-Blackwell dictionary of modern European history since 1789. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.