Jamie Camplin

Jamie Camplin was born in 1947.His first love was history and, after winning a place at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, when he was sixteen, he went on to take a Double First.After a period working for the textiles and fibre corporation Courtaulds, he embarked on a publishing career at Thames & Hudson, where he was Editorial Director 1979-2005 and Managing Director 2005-13.He is the author of The Rise of the Plutocrats: Wealth and Power in Edwardian England (1978), where - according to...See more

Jamie Camplin was born in 1947.His first love was history and, after winning a place at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, when he was sixteen, he went on to take a Double First.After a period working for the textiles and fibre corporation Courtaulds, he embarked on a publishing career at Thames & Hudson, where he was Editorial Director 1979-2005 and Managing Director 2005-13.He is the author of The Rise of the Plutocrats: Wealth and Power in Edwardian England (1978), where - according to Michael Holroyd in The Times - he wrote 'with skill and a wry romantic wit.I can see he is playing brilliant See less