Christopher Andrew

I deeply admire Christopher Andrew for taking the shadowy world of espionage and dragging it into serious scholarship. Born in 1941 and shaped by Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, he built a career as an emeritus professor of modern history with a rare specialty: the history of intelligence services. That is painstaking, archive-grinding work, and his Fellowship of the Royal Historical Society is well earned. Flashy popular historians are everywhere, but I reserve my respect for the patient researchers who illuminate the hidden corners of statecraft. His is quiet, unglamorous, and genuinely important work, and the field is richer for it.

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Name (English)

Christopher Andrew

Name (Japanese)

クリストファー・アンドリュー

Reading

くりすとふぁー・あんどりゅー

Born

July 23, 1941 (age 85)

Occupation

historian of Modern Age / university teacher / historian / writer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Snake

University

Corpus Christi College

Awards & achievements

• Fellow of the Royal Historical Society

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20Andrew%20(historian)
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%83%AA%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1086484

Tags

• historian of Modern Age
• university teacher
• historian

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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