Peter Frankopan
Historian and writer
Peter Frankopan is a British historian and professor of global history at Oxford. He wrote The Silk Roads, published in 2015.
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British Born 1971 in England, United Kingdom
About Peter Frankopan
Peter Frankopan is a British historian, writer and hotelier, born in 1971. He studied history at Jesus College, Cambridge, and went on to complete a doctorate at Corpus Christi College. At Oxford he holds a chair in global history at Worcester College and directs the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research. He also holds a professorship in Silk Roads studies at the University of Cambridge. He is best known for The Silk Roads, a 2015 book that became an international bestseller. He also wrote The New Silk Roads. Frankopan contributes to the national and international press, writing on current affairs and on what history can tell us about today. His work has been translated into twelve languages. In 1999 he set up A Curious Group of Hotels with his wife Jessica.