Colin Shindler (born 1949) is an

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author, social historian and Affiliated Lecturer in History at

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Life and career

Born in Manchester, Colin Shindler graduated with a degree in History from

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, where he later completed his

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on Hollywood and the

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. Since 1998 he has been lecturing and teaching at Cambridge on films and American history. He has written numerous books on British and American cultural history with an emphasis on the impact of sport and film on modern society. ''Manchester United Ruined My Life'' and ''Manchester City Ruined My Life'' are a pair of memoirs about his support for

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. He also wrote the screenplay for the 1988 film '' Buster'' and worked as a

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in England between 1977 and 1996. His older brother is the lawyer

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. He should not be confused with another English academic and historian, also called Colin Shindler, born in 1946, who specialises in the history of modern Israel.

Books

*''Hollywood Goes to War: Films and American Society, 1939–1952'' 1979, 2014 *''Buster: A Novel Based on His Own Original Screenplay'' 1988 *''Hollywood in Crisis: Cinema and American Society, 1929–1939'' 1996 *''

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Ruined My Life'' 1998 (memoir) *''High on a Cliff'' 1999 (novel) *''Fathers, Sons and Football'' 2001 *''First Love, Second Chance'' 2002 (novel) *''

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and 21 Others'' 2004 *'' Garbo and

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in Love: Hollywood's First Great Celebrity Couple'' 2005 *''The Worst of Friends:

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and

'' 2009 *''The Worst of Friends: The Betrayal of Joe Mercer'' 2011 (novel) *''Manchester City Ruined My Life'' 2012 (memoir) *''

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: From Aldershot to Aden: Tales from the Conscripts, 1946–62'' 2012 *''The Professional Amateur: The Cricketing Life of Bob Barber'' 2015 *''Four Lions: The Lives and Times of Four Captains of

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'' 2016 *''I'm Sure I Speak for Many Others ... : Unpublished Letters to the BBC'' 2017 (edited) *''Barbed Wire and Cucumber Sandwiches: The Controversial South African Tour of 1970'' 2020

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Shindler, Colin 1949 births Living people Writers from Manchester Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Academics of the University of Cambridge English memoirists English historians Cricket historians and writers English sportswriters English television producers 21st-century English novelists Academics of the Institute of Continuing Education