Martyn Rady
Historian of Central Europe
Martyn Rady is a historian and Emeritus Masaryk Professor of Central European History at University College London. He wrote The Habsburgs, a history of the dynasty.
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British Born 1955
About Martyn Rady
Martyn Rady is a historian of Central Europe. He holds the title of Masaryk Professor Emeritus of Central European History, based at University College London's School of Slavonic and East European Studies, and he retired from the university in December 2020. He lives in Stroud, Gloucestershire. In the 1980s he taught at Mill Hill School in North London, and his earliest books, about medieval Buda's government and about the Emperor Charles V, date from that time. He joined the School of Slavonic and East European Studies in 1990. He has also written widely on Hungarian and Romanian history and has translated several major Czech and Hungarian chronicles and law codes. His titles include The Habsburgs, which appeared in 2020 and was also issued as The Habsburgs: To Rule the World. He also wrote The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe, which came out in May 2023. His work has been translated into many languages, among them German, Polish, Czech, Russian and Chinese.