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| Ellis Wasson earned his B.A. and M.A. at Johns Hopkins and Ph.D. in British history at Cambridge. His career has been spent as a teacher and administrator in independent schools. He is currently at Tower Hill in Wilmington. He has also taught a variety of colleges and universities and has been at UD since 2001. He is the author of more than a dozen articles in scholarly journals, and has presented papers at many history conferences. He is the author of a student guide to prepare for the Advanced Placement European History Examination (now in its third edition), and four books: Whig Renaissance (1987), Born to Rule: British Political Elites (2000), Aristocracy and the Modern World (2006), and A History of Modern Britain: 1714 to the Present (2009). He has just completed a history of Modern Ireland, and is working on a collection of documents to accompany his textbook on Modern Britain. A compilation of his scholarly papers is in preparation. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1998 and was a Visiting Fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge in 2004. His research interests include the Whig Party in the nineteenth century, British imperialism, and landed society in Britain and Europe since the eighteenth century. |
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