Noel Malcolm


Sir Noel Robert Malcolm, 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.
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 in 1997 and a Fellow of the British Academy 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. 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.

Career

Malcolm was a Fellow and college lecturer at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, from 1981 to 1988. He was a political columnist, then the foreign editor of The Spectator, and a political columnist for the Daily Telegraph. He was jointly awarded the T. E. Utley Prize for Political Journalism in 1991.
In 1995, he gave up journalism to become a full-time writer. In 1996, he was a Visiting Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, and in 1999 he was a lecturer at Harvard University. He has been a senior research fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, since 2002. He served on the advisory board of the conservative magazine Standpoint.
Malcolm used to be the chairman of the Bosnian Institute, London, and president of the Anglo-Albanian Association.

Honours

Malcolm became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1997 and a Fellow of the British Academy in 2001.
He is a Member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosovo, and an honorary fellow of both Peterhouse, Cambridge, and Trinity College, Cambridge.
In 2013, he was awarded the British Academy Medal for his book Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan.
Malcolm was knighted in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to scholarship, journalism, and European history. In 2016, he was awarded the Presidential Gold Medal of the League of Prizren by the president of Kosovo, Hashim Thaçi.

Works

Books

Malcolm is the author of
  • De Dominis, 1560–1624: Venetian, Anglican, Ecumenist, and Relapsed Heretic, about Marco Antonio de Dominis
  • George Enescu: His Life and Music, which has been translated into several languages, about George Enescu
  • Bosnia: A Short History, which has been translated into several languages
  • Origins of English Nonsense
  • Kosovo: A Short History
  • Books on Bosnia: A Critical Bibliography of Works relating to Bosnia-Herzegovina Published Since 1990 in West European Languages
  • Aspects of Hobbes
  • John Pell and His Correspondence with Sir Charles Cavendish: The Mental World of an Early Modern Mathematician
  • Agents of Empire: Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the Late Sixteenth-Century Mediterranean World
  • Useful Enemies: Islam and The Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought, 1450-1750
  • Rebels, Believers, Survivors: Studies in the History of the Albanians
  • Forbidden Desire in Early Modern Europe. Male-Male Sexual Relations, 1400-1750.
Malcolm edited Reason of State, Propaganda, and the Thirty Years War: An Unknown Translation by Thomas Hobbes, The Correspondence of Thomas Hobbes and Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan, for which he was awarded a British Academy Medal. He has also contributed more than 40 journal articles or chapters in books since 2002.

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, The Sunday Telegraph, the New York Times, the Washington Times, Time and the Daily Mail, among other publications. He has also contributed book reviews mainly to The Sunday Telegraph. He has contributed to a number of journals including Foreign Affairs and the New York Review of Books.

Books

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