British historian
Munro Price is a British historian noted for his award-winning work on French history.
Early life
Price was born (February 1963) in London to playwright and author Stanley Price and his wife Judy (née Fenton) and raised in Highgate.
Education
Price was educated at University College School and Cambridge University, where he gained a First Class Degree in History before going on to study for his PhD under the supervision of T. C. W. Blanning.
Price was active in politics while at Cambridge, becoming president of Cambridge University Social Democrats,[1] the university's SDP society.
Career
For much of his academic career Price has been based at the University of Bradford, where he is currently professor of Modern European History and director of MA Programme in the Department of Peace Studies.[2] He has also taught at the University of Swansea and the University of Lyon.
Noted works
Known for his writings on French history from the time of the French Revolution through to Louis Philippe, Price has published several books and articles on the period, including The Fall of the French Monarchy: Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette and the baron de Breteuil (2002), winner of the Franco-British Society's Enid McLeod Literary Prize, and Napoleon: the End of Glory (2015) which has since been translated into German.
Price has also co-authored The Road to Apocalypse: The Extraordinary Journey of Lewis Way with his father, Stanley Price, focussing on the origins of the Evangelical Christian Zionist movement in early 19th century Britain and Europe.
