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Dr Tessa Dunlop is a historian, writer and broadcaster. She has written several best selling oral history books and presented history programmes for the
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(US). She lives in south London.


Education

Dunlop attended
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and read history at St Hilda's College,
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, where she won the 1995 Gertrude Easton Prize for History. She also studied at Sheffield Hallam University and was awarded an MA in Imperialism and Culture and a PhD in Romanian-British history and royal imaging.


Career

After graduating, Dunlop worked for both London radio station
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and
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. She was named ''Regional Television Personality'' in the
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's West of England Awards in 2005 for her work on the regional magazine show '' Inside Out West''. In 2007 Dunlop filmed ''Paranormal Egypt'', an eight-part series with
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on location in
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Publications

Dunlop's first book, ''To Romania with Love'', a memoir set in post-revolution Romania about how she met her future husband, was published in May 2012. Several further history books written by her have been published, most recently ''Army Girls''. * Tessa Dunlop (2021)
''Army Girls: The secrets and stories of military service from the final few women who fought in World War II''. London, Headline Press
ISBN 978-1472282095. * * *


References

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