‘HARDY, Henry  1949–   (Robert Dugdale)’

from Contemporary Authors, 1995
with corrections and additions 


PERSONAL:   Born 15 March (the Ides of March) 1949, in London, England; son of Richard Henry (a doctor) and Elizabeth (Harris) Hardy; married Anne Wilkinson (a research historian), 23 June 1979; children: Ellen Elizabeth (1983), Michael Henry Dugdale (1985). Education: Corpus Christi College, Oxford, BA 1971, MA 1974; Wolfson College, Oxford, BPhil 1974, DPhil 1976. Politics: None. Religion: None.

ADDRESSES:   Office—Wolfson College, OXFORD OX2 6UD, England.   Agent—Camilla Hornby, Curtis Brown Ltd, Fourth Floor, Haymarket House, 28/29 Haymarket, LONDON SWIY 4SP, England.

CAREER:   Robert Dugdale (publisher), Oxford, England, proprietor, under pseudonym Robert Dugdale, since 1974. Editorial Manager, Open Books Publishing Ltd, 1975–6. Editor, Roxby Press, 1976–7. Oxford University Press, Oxford: Editor, Paperbacks, 1977–80, Senior Editor, General Books, 1980–83, Joint Acting Chief Editor (with Will Sulkin, who now runs Pimlico), General Books, 1983–85, Senior Editor, Political and Social Studies, 1985–90; Wolfson College, Oxford University, Oxford, Research Fellow 1990–7, Supernumerary Fellow since 1997. Member of Common Room, Wolfson College, 1976–90, Member of Senior Common Room, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, since 1980.

WRITINGS:
EDITED BOOKS:
  • Arnold Mallinson, Quinquagesimo Anno, Robert Dugdale (Oxford, England), 1974, revised edition published as Under the Blue Hood: A Hotchpotch 1923–1985, 1985.
  • Isaiah Berlin, Selected Writings:
    • (edited with Aileen Kelly), Russian Thinkers, Hogarth Press (London) 1978, Viking (New York) 1978
    • Concepts and Categories: Philosophical Essays, Hogarth Press (London) 1978, Viking 1979
    • Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas, Hogarth Press 1979, Viking 1980
    • Personal Impressions, Hogarth Press, 1980, Viking, 1981; 2nd (enlarged) edition, Pimlico (London) 1998, Princeton University Press 2001.
  • Other books by Isaiah Berlin:
    • The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas, Murray (London) 1990, Knopf (New York) 1991
    • The Magus of the North: J. G. Hamann and the Origins of Modern Irrationalism, Murray 1993, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (New York) 1994
    • The Sense of Reality: Studies in Ideas and their History, Chatto and Windus (London) 1996, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1997
    • (edited with Roger Hausheer) The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays, Chatto and Windus 1997, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1998
    • The Roots of Romanticism, Chatto and Windus 1999, Princeton University Press 1999
    • The Power of Ideas, Chatto and Windus 2000, Princeton Unversity Press 2000
    • Three Critics of the Enlightenment: Vico, Hamann, Herder, Pimlico 2000, Princeton University Press 2000
    • Freedom and its Betrayal: Six Enemies of Human Liberty (1952), Chatto and Windus 2002, Princeton University Press 2002
    • Liberty, Oxford University Press (Oxford and New York) 2002.
  • Founding editor of ‘Past Masters’ series (mostly now transferred to the Very Short Introductions series), Oxford University Press, 1980–5.

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