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] 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.
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