About Ben Pimlott
Lived 1945 – 2004 (aged 58). Ben Pimlott was a British historian, writer and biographer.
Writing During 1987–88, he was political editor of the New Statesman magazine and took on the post of Professor of Contemporary History at Birkbeck in 1988. For the following two years, Pimlott was responsible, with friends, for the short-lived journal Samizdat. His study of Dalton won him the Whitbread Prize.
His other books include Labour and the Left in the 1930s (1977),
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Who was Ben Pimlott?
British historian (1945–2004)
When was Ben Pimlott born?
Ben Pimlott was born on 4 July 1945 in Greater London.
When did Ben Pimlott die?
Ben Pimlott died on 10 April 2004 in Greater London.
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Ben Pimlott was a historian, writer and biographer.
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Ben Pimlott was British.
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