Professor George Peden

Emeritus Professor

History University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA

Professor George Peden

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M.A., D.Phil., F.R.Hist.S., F.R.S.E. Emeritus Professor George Peden was educated at Grove Academy, Broughty Ferry, and, after eight years as a sub-editor on the Dundee Evening Telegraph, he studied as a mature student at the universities of Dundee and Oxford. He taught at the universities of Dundee, Leeds and Bristol before coming to Stirling in 1990. His research awards include British Academy and Leverhulme research readerships for a book, The Treasury and British Public Policy, 1906-1959 (Oxford, 2000) and AHRB-funded research leave for a book, Arms, Economics and British Strategy: From Dreadnoughts to Hydrogen Bombs (Cambridge, 2007). He has been a visiting fellow at All Souls and St Catherine's colleges, Oxford, and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal Historical Society.  His most recent book is Churchill, Chamberlain and Appeasement (Cambridge, 2022). He lives in Callander, dividing his time between research and hill-walking.