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After school (Purley Grammar School) and national service (R.A.F.), I came to Cambridge in 1959 to read History at Christ's College. After graduating in 1962, I began research in American history and was a Harkness Fellow in the United States, 1963-65. I taught at University College London, 1966-71, and became a Fellow of St Catharine's when I was appointed to the Cambridge History Faculty in 1971. I have been here ever since apart from periods of leave, during which I have had Fellowships at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. (1975-76) and the National Humanities Centre in North Carolina (1993-94). I married my wife, Dorothy, a historian of the ancient world and a Fellow of Girton College, in 1982. We have no children.