Richard Charles Vinen (born 1963) is a British historian and academic who holds a professorship at King's College London.
[3][4][5] From 1982 to 1989, Richard Vinen attended Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1985, and then completing his doctoral studies there;[6][7] his PhD was awarded in 1989 for his thesis "The politics of French Business 1936–1945",[8] supervised by Christopher Andrew.
[7] He eventually moved to London where he and his wife lived in a succession of louche locations early in his career.
[6][7] Vinen's book National Service: Conscription in Britain, 1945–1963 (2014) received generally positive reviews.
[12] He also won the Walter Laqueur Prize in 2012 (recognising the best article in Journal of Contemporary History of the previous year) for "The Poisoned Madeleine: The Autobiographical Turn in Historical Writing".