Background
THOMAS, Hugh Swynnerton Thomas was born on October 21, 1931 in Windsor. Son of Hugh Whitelegge and Margery (nee Swynnerton) Thomas.
THOMAS, Hugh Swynnerton Thomas was born on October 21, 1931 in Windsor. Son of Hugh Whitelegge and Margery (nee Swynnerton) Thomas.
Sherborne School, Queens’ College, Cambridge, and Sorbonne, Paris.
Worked for UNA 1959-1961. Professor, of History, University of Reading 1966-1976. Chairman Graduate School of European Studies 1973-1976, Centre for Policy Studies 91.
Fellow, Royal Historical Society. Somerset Maugham.
The Spanish Civil War 1961, The Suez Affair 1966, Cuba or the Pursuit of Freedom 1971, Goya and the Third of May 1808 1973, John Strachey 1973, An Unfinished History of the World 1979, A Case for the Round Reading Room 1983, Havannah! (novel) 1984, Armed Truce: the beginnings of the Cold War 1945-1946 1986, Klara (novel) 1988, Madrid: A Traveller’s Companion (Editor) 1988.
Academy Advisory Board, Conservative Research Department since 1982.
Married Vanessa Jebb in 1962.