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Simon Heffer

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July 18, 1960

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Simon James Heffer, Baron Blackwater is an English historian, journalist, author, political commentator and member of the House of Lords. He has published several biographies and a series of books on the social history of Great Britain from the mid-nineteenth century until the end of the First World War. He was appointed professorial research fellow at the University of Buckingham in 2017.

Heffer worked as a columnist for the Daily Mail and since 2015 has had a weekly column in The Sunday Telegraph. As a political commentator, Heffer takes a socially conservative position.

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T he sight of the Prince of Wales walking his son��s fianc��e down the aisle of St George��s Chapel yesterday made a fundamental point about the Royal family: it has become less royal, in the sense of protocol and stiffness, and has become more of a normal family, in the...

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Average rating: 3.93 · 1,838 ratings · 261 reviews · 31 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Age of Decadence: Britain 1880 to 1914 3.92 avg rating — 316 ratings — published 2017 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	High Minds: The Victorians and the Birth of Modern Britain 3.97 avg rating — 128 ratings — published 2013 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Like the Roman: The Life of Enoch Powell 4.41 avg rating — 90 ratings — published 1998 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Strictly English: The Correct Way to Write . . . And Why It Matters 3.50 avg rating — 111 ratings — published 1996 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sing As We Go: Britain Between the Wars 4.09 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 2023 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Staring at God: Britain in the Great War 4.06 avg rating — 49 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vaughan Williams 3.75 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2000 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Scarcely English: An A to Z of Assaults On Our Language 3.19 avg rating — 37 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Great British Speeches 3.45 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2011 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Untitled on Language 3.65 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2014 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The obsession with show; the importance of the pose; the decline of the spiritual and the rise of the material; an undue concentration of wealth among a privileged few, many of whose new recruits lacked the philanthropic impulse of an earlier generation -- all these provided the stuff of the moral, intellectual and industrial that made this an age of decadence.”
― Simon Heffer, The Age of Decadence: Britain 1880 to 1914

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“which Redmond had presided ‘to efficiently arm and equip the National Volunteers of Dublin City’, even though a proclamation had just been issued forbidding the sales of rifles and ammunition. ‘Subscriptions amounting to £642 were raised on the spot.’ It is not clear whether Redmond’s followers wanted the rifles to arm against republicans or Unionists. Despite the United Kingdom’s national emergency, many Irish seemed to be arming themselves against another enemy.”
― Simon Heffer, Staring at God: Britain in the Great War

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