‘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 first Anne Wilkinson (a research historian), 23 June 1979, divorced 2012, second Mary Merry, 13 May 2013; 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—Norah Perkins, Curtis Brown, 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), General Books, 1983–85, Senior Editor, Political and Social Studies, 1985–90; Wolfson College, Oxford University, Oxford, Graduate Student 1972–6, Member of Common Room, 1976–90, Research Fellow 1990–7, Supernumerary Fellow 1997–2015, Honorary Fellow since 2015; Member of Senior Common Room, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, since 1980.

WRITINGS:
  • Tunes: Collected Musical Juvenilia, Robert Dugdale (Oxford, England), 2003.
  • In Search of Isaiah Berlin: A Literary Adventure (London, 2018: I.B.Tauris; repr. by Tauris Parke 2019 [with corrections], 2020 [paperback, with new appendix]).
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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