Colin Shindler (born 1949) is an English author, social historian and affiliated lecturer in history at Cambridge University.
[1] He should not be confused with another English academic and historian, also called Colin Shindler, born in 1946, who specialises in the history of modern Israel.
[4] He graduated with a degree in history from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he later completed his PhD thesis on Hollywood and the Great Depression.
[3][5] He has written numerous books on British and American cultural history, with an emphasis on the impact of sport and film on modern society.
[6] He also wrote the screenplay for the 1988 film Buster and worked as a scriptwriter and television producer in England between 1977 and 1996,[1][3] for shows including Lovejoy, Juliet Bravo, and Heartbeat.