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The Commonwealth has had consistently bad press. It was originally seen as a kind of hangover empire. People have long predicted its demise. ↗
Benjamin John Pimlott FBA known as Ben Pimlott (4 July 1945 – 10 April 2004) was a British historian of the post-war period in Britain. In 1970 he was appointed as a lecturer in the politics department of the University of Newcastle where he also took his PhD. In 1996 his works were recognised with a Fellowship of the British Academy.
His study of Dalton won him the Whitbread Prize. In 1970 he was appointed as a lecturer in the politics department of the University of Newcastle where he also took his PhD. 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.
