Timothy Randolph Stanley (born 1 April 1982) is a British journalist, author and historian.[ www.bloomsbury.com]
Early life
Educated at the Judd School, a
grammar school in
Tonbridge,
Kent,
Stanley taught as a
Gap year at Solefield School, Sevenoaks,
before studying
Modern History at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated as Bachelor of Arts (BA).
Stanley then pursued further studies at the University of Cambridge, completing a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) degree, then taking a doctorate of Philosophy (PhD):
Active in student journalism at Cambridge and, contributing to student newspaper Varsity, Stanley unsuccessfully ran for a sabbatical post on Cambridge University Students' Union. Standing in 2007 as Welfare Officer, his manifesto comprised a handwritten note simply stating: "This is hand-written because I was too drunk to write a manifesto. There is no better testament to my character."
Academic career
Stanley held
Lecturer at the University of Sussex (2008–09) and Royal Holloway College, London (2009–11) and, from 2011 to 2012, he became an Associate Member of the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford, receiving a
Leverhulme Trust Grant.
In November 2011, Stanley organised a conference called History: What is it good for?,
Media
A
columnist with
The Daily Telegraph, Stanley has also been a regular contributor to
CNN,
reporting on American politics and culture, including the 2016 and subsequent election campaigns. He contributes to
History Today and
Literary Review,
and has written pieces for
The Guardian and
The Spectator.
Stanley wrote and presented a documentary for the BBC entitled Family Guys? What Sitcoms Say About America Now, which was broadcast in October 2012.
He has presented BBC Radio 4's Thought for the Day,
Politics
Joining the Labour Party at the age of 15,
[ www.timothystanley.co.uk] Stanley was
Chairman of Cambridge University Labour Club for 2003/04, and stood as the Labour candidate for his home
constituency of Sevenoaks at the 2005 general election, coming third.
[ www.theguardian.com] He has since distanced himself from
Socialism,
and has argued in support of the Republican Party in the United States.
At the 2017 UK general election, Stanley allied himself with the Conservative Party, voting for them again in 2019.
Stanley announced his voting preference in favour of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) at the 2024 UK general election, preferring its emphasis on national solidarity to that of the
Reform UK whose focus was on British exceptionalism.
Stanley supported the UK Brexit.[ www.catholicherald.co.uk]
Personal life
A kinsman of the earls of Derby, he was raised as a
Baptists.
In 2002 he began to consider himself to be an
Anglican, and was baptised as an Anglican at Little St. Mary's, Cambridge, in New Year 2003. He subsequently aligned himself with the Church of England's
Anglo-Catholic High church,
before being received into the
Catholic Church, aged 23.
Stanley lives in Kent with a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel named "Bertie Jennings".
See also
Publications
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Timothy Stanley and Alexander Lee, The End of Politics: Realignment and the Battle for the Centre Ground (London: Politico's, London, 2006)
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Timothy Stanley, Kennedy vs. Carter: The 1980 Battle for the Democratic Party's Soul (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2010)
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Timothy Stanley, The Crusader: The Life and Tumultuous Times of Pat Buchanan (New York: Thomas Dunne, 2012)
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Jonathan Bell and Timothy Stanley (eds.), Making Sense of American Liberalism (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2012)
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Timothy Stanley, Citizen Hollywood: How the Collaboration between LA and DC Revolutionized American Politics (New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2014)
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Tim Stanley, Whatever Happened to Tradition?: History, Belonging and the Future of the West (Bloomsbury Continuum, 2021)
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