Professor Denis Judd is a graduate of Magdalen College, Oxford, a PhD of London University, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Professor Emeritus of History at London Metropolitan University. He has published over 20 books including the biographies of Joseph Chamberlain, Prince Philip, George VI and Alison Uttley, historical and military subjects, stories for children and two novels. Some of his most recent books are the highly praised and best selling Empire: The British Imperial Experience from 1765 to the Present, The Boer War and The Lion and the Tiger; the rise and fall of the British Raj. He has reviewed and written extensively in the national and international press, and in journals, has written several programs for BBC Radio 4 and the BBC World Service, and is an advisor to the BBC History Magazine. He is often interviewed for national and international television and radio and his most recent book is his edited edition of the Diaries of Alison Uttley (2009).