Orlando Figes
Orlando Guy Figes is a British and German historian and writer. He was a professor of history at Birkbeck College, University of London, where he was made Emeritus Professor on his retirement in 2022.
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- Born in
- Greater London
- Educated at
- Trinity CollegeGonville and Caius CollegeWilliam Ellis School
- Awards
- 🏆 Wolfson History Prize🏆 Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
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1959
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