Andrew Neil Porter (12 October 1945 – 4 March 2021) was

Rhodes Professor of Imperial History The Rhodes Professorship of Imperial History was one of the senior professorships in history at King's College London. Endowed by the Rhodes Trust in 1919, it was axed in 2022 over links to the colonial legacy of its namesake Cecil Rhodes. It was ...

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from 1993 to 2008. Between 1979 and 1990, he edited the '' Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History''. He was educated at

Christ's Hospital Christ's Hospital is a public school (English independent boarding school for pupils aged 11–18) with a royal charter located to the south of Horsham in West Sussex. The school was founded in 1552 and received its first royal charter in 1553 ...

and

St John's College, Cambridge St John's College is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge founded by the House of Tudor, Tudor matriarch Lady Margaret Beaufort. In constitutional terms, the college is a charitable corpo ...

(MA, PhD).‘PORTER, Prof. Andrew Neil’, Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2014

Selected publications

;Books *''The Origins of the South African War: Joseph Chamberlain and the diplomacy of imperialism, 1895‑99.'' St. Martin's, New York, 1980. *''Victorian shipping, business and imperial policy: Donald Currie, the Castle Line, and southern Africa.''

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, Woodbridge, 1986. *''European Imperialism, 1860-1914.'' Palgrave, 1994. *''The Oxford history of the British Empire: Vol. III The nineteenth century,''

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, Oxford, 1999. (Editor) *''Religion versus empire? British protestant missionaries and overseas expansion, 1700-1914.''

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, Manchester, 2004. ;Articles "The South African war and the historians" in ''

African Affairs ''African Affairs'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal published quarterly by Oxford University Press on behalf of the London-based Royal African Society. The journal covers any Africa-related topic: political, social, economic, environmental an ...

'', Vol. 99, No. 397 (Oct., 2000), pp. 633–648.

References

External links

Andrew Porter on Britain's Empire in 1815.
1945 births 2021 deaths People educated at Christ's Hospital Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge Academics of King's College London British historians Fellows of King's College London {{UK-historian-stub