Hugh Thomas

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Hugh Thomas, Baron Thomas of Swynnerton (born 1931), is a British historian.

His 1961 book The Spanish Civil War was awarded the Somerset Maugham Prize. "Cuba, or the Pursuit of Freedom" (1971) is a book of over 1500 pages tracing the history of Cuba from Spanish colonial times until the Castro revolution.

From 1966 to 1975 he was Professor of History at the University of Reading. He was Director of the Centre for Policy Studies in London from 1979 to 1991, as an ally of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. He became a life peer in 1981.

He has written pro-European political works, as well as histories.

Works

• The Spanish Civil War (1961)
• Cuba or the Pursuit of Freedom (1971)
• Europe: the Radical Challenge (1973)
• A History of the World (1979)
• Armed Truce (1986)
• Ever Closer Union (1991)
• Conquest: Montezuma, Cortés and the Fall of Old Mexico (1994)
• World History, The Story of Mankind from Prehistory to the Present (1996)
• Slave Trade (1997)
• Rivers of Gold (2003)