Barbara Emerson is an English historian and biographer, known for her biography of King Leopold II of Belgium. She was also a fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford.[1]

Barbara Emerson
NationalityBritish
Alma materSt. Hilda's College, Oxford
Occupation(s)Historian and Biographer
SpouseMichael Emerson (div)

Emerson received her degree in PPE from St Hilda's College, Oxford where she later taught.[2]

She was highly critical of Adam Hochschild's book King Leopold's Ghost, rebuking it in The Guardian as "a very shoddy piece of work."[3]

Works

edit
  • The Black Prince (1976)
  • Leopold II of the Belgians: King of Colonialism (1979)
  • Paul Delvaux (1985)
  • The First Cold War: Anglo-Russian Relations in the 19th Century, Hurst Publishing, 2024

References

edit
  1. ^ "» Author Bios Advanced Historical Method 304". Blogs.dickinson.edu. 22 September 2010. Archived from the original on 14 December 2012. Retrieved 11 May 2013.
  2. ^ ""The memory of Congo : the colonial era"". Oxfordandcambridge.be. 2 October 2005. Archived from the original on 14 April 2016. Retrieved 11 May 2013.
  3. ^ Bates, Stephen (13 May 1999). "The Hidden Holocaust". The Guardian.