Noel Malcolm

Malcolm was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, has a doctorate from the University of Cambridge, and was for a time Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He is perhaps the world's leading authority on Thomas Hobbes; the scholarship in his edition of Hobbes's Correspondence (1994) (ISBN 0-19-823747-2) was justly described by one reviewer as 'beyond praise and almost beyond belief'.

He is a former Foreign Editor of The Spectator, and columnist for the Daily Telegraph. He gave up journalism in 1995 to become a full time writer, and is now a Senior Research Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He is a Fellow of the British Academy.

His name appears among the founders of the now controversial British Helsinki Human Rights Group on behalf of which he had spoken as recently as 1999.
He now chairs the Board of Trustees at the Bosnian Institute, an organization mainly devoted to providing information on Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Noel Malcolm is the author of Bosnia: A Short History (1994), Origins of English Nonsense (1997), Kosovo: A Short History'' (1998), Aspects of Hobbes (2002), and (with J. Stedall) John Pell (1611-1685) and His Correspondence with Sir Charles Cavendish: The Mental World of an Early Modern Mathematician (2005). He is the editor of The Correspondence of Thomas Hobbes (1994). He has also written George Enescu: His Life and Music'' (1990) (Toccata Press).

His books on the history of Bosnia and Kosovo have gained notable popularity in the West, taking their part in shaping Western public opinion about current events in the Balkans, and Malcolm is sometimes even described as a historian. He is not a historian however, and the books are oftenly criticised, save for countries which he depicts favourably. Of course, most of the criticism comes from Serbia, where he is sometimes even described as a pen-for-hire (for an example see Response to Noel Malcolm's Book "Kosovo: A Short History").

Some other Articles by Noel Malcolm

• "The grandee and a question of genocide" Daily Mail, 6 November 1996.
• "Independence for Kosovo", The New York Times, 9 June 1999.
• "Milosevic was doomed by press freedom" The Sunday Telegraph, 1 July 2001
  

  Book reviews by Noel Malcolm

• "Norman Cigar's "Genocide in Bosnia: the policy of 'ethnic cleansing", The Sunday Telegraph, 11 June 1995.
• "David Owen and his Balkan bungling", extended version of a review of Lord Owen's "Balkan Odyssey" (London 1995, New York 1996) first published in The Sunday Telegraph on 12 November 1995
• "Fighting For Peace: Bosnia 1994" Review of the book by General Sir Michael Rose, Harvill, London, 1998.
• "Stay the Hand of Vengeance", The Sunday Telegraph, 15 October 2000. Review of: "Stay the Hand of Vengeance: the politics of war crimes tribunals", by Gary Bass, Princeton University Press.
• "The dysfunctional functionary", The Sunday Telegraph, 20 October 2000.
• "Unfinest Hour" Review of the book by Brendan Simms: "Unfinest Hour: Britain and the Destruction of Bosnia" (Allen Lane/Penguin).