Professor Linda Colley Appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire

Congratulations to Professor Linda Colley (Honorary Fellow) who has been appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the Queen's Birthday Honours 2022,

Linda is the Shelby M.C. Davis 1958 Professor of History, Princeton University in the US.

Her citation reads: "Professor Linda Colley is recognised for an outstanding contribution to history. ​Awarded a CBE in 2009, she has continued to produce historical works of profound political and cultural relevance, helping the understanding of Britain’s constitutional place in the world, and of constitutions more generally. In the last decade she has published two highly acclaimed books on these topics, Acts of Union and Disunion (2014) and The Gun, the Ship and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions and the Making of the Modern World (2021), each of them a major scholarly achievement."