Dr. Stephen Inwood
Dr Stephen Inwood was born in London in 1947. He studied history at Balliol College, Oxford, and St Antony’s College, Oxford, and completed his D.Phil. in 1971. For 26 years he taught history in Thames Valley University and its component colleges, and between 2000 and 2008 he was a research Fellow at Kingston University. He became an almost full-time writer in 1999. His main publications are A History of London (1998), The Man Who Knew Too Much (a life of the scientist Robert Hooke) (Macmillan, 2001), City of Cities (a study of London in the thirty years before the First World War) (Macmillan, 2005), and Historic London: an Explorer's Companion (Macmillan, 2008).