Biographical Note

 

Mr Timothy Garton Ash

Timothy Garton Ash is Director of the European Studies Centre, St Antony's College, and Gerd Bucerius Senior Research Fellow in Contemporary History. He has written extensively about the recent history of Europe in general and Central Europe in particular. His books include The Polish Revolution: Solidarity (1983); The Uses of Adversity: Essays on the Fate of Central Europe (1989); We the People: The Revolution of '89 witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague (1990); In Europe's Name: Germany and the Divided Continent (1993), The File: A Personal History (1997) and, most recently, History of the Present: Essays, Sketches and Despatches from Europe in the 1990s. His current research interests include the way in which nations deal with difficult pasts, the development of the EU in the context of the larger Europe, and the shaping of European identity.

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