{"id":14,"date":"2015-06-17T13:34:20","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T12:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgegoodwin.wordpress.com\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2026-04-21T00:02:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T23:02:54","slug":"author","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.georgegoodwin.com\/?page_id=14","title":{"rendered":"Author"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgegoodwin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/author-photo-and-caption.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-204\" src=\"http:\/\/www.georgegoodwin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/author-photo-and-caption.jpg?w=256\" alt=\"author photo and caption\" width=\"256\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.georgegoodwin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/author-photo-and-caption.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.georgegoodwin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/author-photo-and-caption-256x300.jpg 256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>George Goodwin is the author of four highly-acclaimed historical studies. <em>\u00a0 <\/em>The latest of these is <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em>Propaganda Wars of the American Revolution, published by Yale Univeristy Press in 2026. <\/em><\/span>It is a successor to his <em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">B<\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>enjamin Franklin in London: The British Life of America&#8217;s Founding Father<\/em><\/span>, published in hardcover and paperback by Weidenfeld &amp; Nicolson (UK) and Yale University Press (USA). His previous works were <span style=\"color: #993300;\"><em>Fatal Colours &#8211; Towton 1461<\/em><\/span> on the reign of Henry VI and the\u00a01st War of the Roses;\u00a0and <em><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Fatal Rivalry &#8212; Henry VIII, James IV and the battle for Renaissance Britain, Flodden 1513, <\/span>\u00a0both published by Weidenfeld &amp; Nicolson (UK) and W W Norton (USA)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He is also the author of the festive <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Christmas Traditions: A celebration of festive lore, <\/span>\u00a0published by British Library Publishing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">~~<\/p>\n<p>George Goodwin is\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.7;\">a\u00a0<\/span>Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and\u00a0the Royal Society of Arts.<\/p>\n<p>George was the 2018\/19 Dr William M. and Betty H. Busey Family Fellow at the Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon; and an Eccles Centre Makin Fellow at the British Library. He was a 2014 &amp; 2017 International Fellow at the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello. He is Honorary Author in Residence at Benjamin Franklin House in London.<\/p>\n<p>George\u00a0is\u00a0a history graduate of Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he was awarded a Foundation Exhibition.\u00a0\u00a0His home is in Kew, a stone&#8217;s throw from the Royal Botanic Gardens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Goodwin is the author of four highly-acclaimed historical studies. \u00a0 The latest of these is Propaganda Wars of the American Revolution, published by Yale Univeristy Press in 2026. It is a successor to his Benjamin Franklin in London: The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.georgegoodwin.com\/?page_id=14\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"onecolumn-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgegoodwin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgegoodwin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgegoodwin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgegoodwin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgegoodwin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgegoodwin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgegoodwin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}