Linda Colley

Linda Colley is Shelby M.C. Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton University and a Fellow of the British Academy. Her books include the award-winning Britons: Forging the Nation, the highly-acclaimed The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History, and Acts of Union and Disunion, which was based on a 15-part BBC Radio series. Her latest book is The Gun, the Ship and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World (March 2021).