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Juliet Gardiner (born 24 June 1945) is a British historian and a commentator on British social history from Victorian times through to the 1950s. She is a former editor of ''History Today'' magazine, a Research Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research of the School of Advanced Study at the University of London and was an Honorary Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, and previously taught at Middlesex University and Oxford Brookes University.〔(Home page at University of Edinburgh School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures ) Centre for the History of the Book〕 Gardiner has also worked as a publisher for Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Since 2001 she has been a full-time writer. ==Work== Her books include ''Wartime: Britain 1939-1945'' (Headline, 2004) which recounts the history of the Home Front during World War II. Gardiner also wrote the books to accompany the Channel 4 television series ''The 1940s House'' (2000) and ''The Edwardian Country House'' (2002), and three books linked to exhibitions at London's Imperial War Museum, ''From the Bomb to the Beatles'' (1999), ''The Children's War: The Second World War Through the Eyes of the Children of Britain'' (2005) and ''The Animals' War: Animals in Wartime from the First World War to the Present Day'' (2006). Gardiner was also the editor of ''Who's Who in British History'' (2000, Collins & Brown), the ''"History Today" Companion to British History'' (1996, Collins & Brown) with Neil Wenborn and ''The Penguin Dictionary of British History'' (2000). She acted as historical consultant to the film of ''Atonement'', and is a frequent broadcaster on radio and television, a reviewer and a contributor to the national press, including ''The Sunday Times'', ''Sunday Telegraph'', ''Financial Times'', ''The Guardian'' and BBC History. Gardiner's book on 1930s Britain, ''The Thirties: An Intimate History'', was published by HarperCollins in 2009.〔The British edition was published in 2009. Juliet Gardiner, ''The Thirties: An Intimate History'', London: Harper Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-00-724076-0〕 Its purpose was, as Gardiner herself has explained, to take the structure of the 1930s, formed over the years by political and economic historians, and "fill in as many details as possible" about how people lived their lives during that period.〔Juliet Gardiner in ''History Today'', April 2010〕 Gardiner's most recent book:; ''The Blitz: The British Under Attack'' was published in 2010 by Harper Press (ISBN 978-0-007240777). In 2012, Gardiner wrote and presented a series for BBC Radio 4 entitled ''The History of the Future'' a series of ten programmes exploring how cultures of the past viewed the possibilities of the future. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Juliet Gardiner」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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