Paul preston biography

British historian (born 1946)

Sir Paul PrestonCBE (born 21 July 1946) is an English historian and Hispanist, biographer of Francisco Franco, and specialist in Spanish history, in particular the Spanish Civil War, which he has studied for more than 50 years.

He is the winner of multiple awards for his books on the Spanish Civil War.^[1]

Biography

Preston was born in 1946 in Liverpool. Preston said in an interview that he has sympathy for the Second Spanish Republic: "I came from a fairly left-wing family.

You could not really be from working-class Liverpool and not be left-wing.

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Emotionally, in my feeling for the Republic I think there is an element of indignation about the Republic's defeat, solidarity with the losing side. Maybe that's why I support Everton, although Everton wasn't the losing side in my day."^[2]

Preston studied for his undergraduate degree at Oriel College, Oxford.

He then gained an MA in European Studies at the University