Dr Anthony Seldon

Career: research fell and tutor LSE 1980-82, head of politics Whitgift Sch Croydon 1983-89, head of history and sixth form gen educn Tonbridge Sch 1989-92, dep headmaster then actg headmaster St Dunstan's Coll Catford 1993-97, headmaster Brighton Coll 1997-2005, master Wellington Coll 2006-; visiting fell Dept of Int History Univ of Kent 1992-94; founding dir Inst of Contemporary British History; historical advsr to orgns incl Rio Tinto-Zinc Corp; ed and fndr: Modern History Review, Politics Review, Contemporary Record, Making Contemporary Britain (book series); regular broadcaster and newspaper contrib; FRSA, FRHistS

Books and Publications: books incl: Churchill's Indian Summer (1981), The Thatcher Effect (1989), The Conservative Century (1994), John Major: A Political Life (1997), Number 10: An Illustrated History (1999), The Foreign Office (2000), Governing Before New Labour (2003), Tony Blair: A Biography (2004), Blair Unbound (2007), The Future of Independent Schools (2008); pamphlets: Public and Private Education: the divide must end (2001), A New Conservative Century (2001), Partnership not Paternalism (2002); regular book reviewer for academic jls and newspapers