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Timothy Garton Ash is a British historian, author and commentator. He is Professor of European Studies emeritus at the University of Oxford and a Senior Fellow of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
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Born 12 July 1955 · Q311729
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being British has changed into something worth preserving, especially in a world of migration where peoples are going to become ever more mixed up together. As men and women from different parts of the former British empire have come to live here in ever larger numbers, the post-imperial identity has become, ironically but not accidentally, the most liberal, civic, inclusive one.
Awarded Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences (2026).
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“being British has changed into something worth preserving, especially in a world of migration where peoples are going to become ever more mixed up together. As men and women from different parts of the former British empire have come to live here in ever larger numbers, the post-imperial identity has become, ironically but not accidentally, the most liberal, civic, inclusive one.”
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Awarded Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences (2026).
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Yahoo: Timothy Garton Ash: We're at the beginning of a new era. What we do now is particularly important
Awarded Charlemagne Prize (2017).
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Awarded Theodor Heuss Award (2017).
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Won Charlemagne Medal for European Media (2013).
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Awarded honorary doctor of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (2011).
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Awarded Ischia International Journalism Award (2008).
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Awarded Orwell Prize (2006).
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Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (2005).
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Garton Ash was listed in Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people
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Awarded Hoffmann von Fallersleben Prize (2002).
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Awarded Prix Européen de l'Essai Charles Veillon (1989).
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A Senior Fellow of Stanford University's Hoover Institution in 2000, and Professor of European Studies at the University of Oxford in 2004
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George Kennan described him as a 'historian of the present'
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Awarded Somerset Maugham Award (1984).
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And to the Humboldt University in East Berlin in 1980 as the first GDR–UK exchange student
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Born 1955-07-12.
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