History of Britain Through Books: 1900 - 1964

Christopher Tugendhat is a Conservative member of the House of Lords and currently sits on the Economic Affairs Committee. He was a European Commissioner from 1977 to 1981 and a Vice-President of the Commission from 1981 to 1985. From 1970 to 1976 he was the Conservative Member of Parliament for the City of London and Westminster South. He has been chairman and has held board and advisory positions at several companies. He is the author of Oil: The Biggest Business, The Multinationals, which won the McKinsey Foundation Book Award in the US, Making Sense of Europe and, in conjunction with William Wallace, Options for British Foreign Policy in the 1990s. From 1960 to 1970 he was a journalist on the Financial Times. He is a graduate of the University of Cambridge, is an Honorary Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, and holds honorary degrees from the University of Bath and the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. He was knighted in 1990 and is a Freeman of the City of London. He is married to Julia Dobson, a psychotherapist and author. They have two sons and five grandchildren and live in London.

'Tugendhat's choices are always pertinent and thought-provoking. He guides us through a vivid and absorbing examination of 20th Century Britain, showing the seeds of a new age taking root in the soil of the old.' - Alastair Mabbott, Sunday Herald; 'The effect is to capture history as it unfolded while highlighting the prescience and prejudices of the period.' -- Fiona Capp, Sydney Morning Herald