Peter Snowdon is a contemporary historian and
journalist
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.
Educated at
St. Dunstan's College
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,
Durham University and the
London School of Economics
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, he has collaborated with
Anthony Seldon
Sir Anthony Francis Seldon (born 2 August 1953) is a British educator and contemporary historian. As an author, he is known in part for his political biographies of Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Ther ...
on a number of books, including the authorised biography of
John Major, ''Major: A Political Life'' (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997), ''Blair'' (Simon & Schuster, 2004) and ''Blair Unbound'' (Simon & Schuster, 2007).
He has written articles on the
Conservative Party in several academic journals, including ''The Political Quarterly'' and ''Parliamentary Affairs''. He has also contributed to ''Parliamentary Monitor'', ''
Parliamentary Brief'' and ''
Newsweek
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''. He is an occasional columnist for the ''
Yorkshire Post
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'' and has appeared as a commentator on television and radio in the UK and abroad. He currently works for
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*Author, ''Back from the Brink: The Extraordinary Fall and Rise of the Conservative Party'' (September 2010)
*Co-author, ''Blair Unbound'' with Anthony Seldon and Daniel Collings (Simon & Schuster, 2007)
*Contributor, ''The Blair Effect: 2001-05'' (CUP, 2005)
*Contributor, ''Recovering Power: The Conservative Party in Opposition since 1867'' (Palgrave, 2005)
*Contributor, ''Britain Votes 2005'' (edited by Pippa Norris, OUP, 2005)
*Co-author, ''The Conservative Party: An Illustrated History'' (Sutton Publishing, 2004)
*Principal researcher, ''Blair'' (Simon & Schuster, 2004)
*Co-author, ''A New Conservative Century?'' (Centre for Policy Studies, 2001)