It was Plumb’s influence which instilled in him the importance of narrative and written style in order to gain an audience for history outside academia. Here he was taught by Sir John Plumb whose other students: Linda Colley, Roy Porter and John Brewer are now central to British historical thought. Forced to choose between the two he opted to read history at Christ’s College, Cambridge. When his parents moved to London he won a scholarship to Haberdashers’ Aske’s School where his two great loves were English and History. The son of a textile merchant with Lithuanian and Turkish grandparents, he spent his early years in Leigh-on-Sea in Essex.
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