Tim Blanning

Until age-dictated retirement in 2009, Tim Blanning was Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge. He remains a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and has been a Fellow of the British Academy since 1990. His major works include The French Revolution in Germany , The French Revolutionary Wars , The Power of Culture and the Culture of Power , The Pursuit of Glory: Europe 1648-1815 and The Triumph of Music . He has written biographies of Joseph II, Frederick the Great...See more

Until age-dictated retirement in 2009, Tim Blanning was Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge. He remains a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and has been a Fellow of the British Academy since 1990. His major works include The French Revolution in Germany , The French Revolutionary Wars , The Power of Culture and the Culture of Power , The Pursuit of Glory: Europe 1648-1815 and The Triumph of Music . He has written biographies of Joseph II, Frederick the Great and George I. See less