David Boyd Haycock
David Boyd Haycock (born 1968 in Banbury, Oxfordshire)[1] is a British writer, curator and lecturer. He read 'Modern History' at St John's College, Oxford, and has an MA in the History of Art from the University of Sussex and a PhD in History from Birkbeck College, London. He is the author of a number of books, including William Stukeley: Science, Archaeology and Religion in Eighteenth Century England (2002) Paul Nash (2002, 2nd edition 2016),[2] Mortal Coil: A Short History of Living Longer (2008)[3] and A Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War (2009), a group biography of the artists Paul Nash, Stanley Spencer, Mark Gertler, Dora Carrington and C.R.W. Nevinson, all of whom were students together at the Slade School of Art in London.[4] He lives in Oxford.[5]
A Crisis of Brilliance was nominated in the "Best Non-Fiction Book" category at the 2010 Writers' Guild of Great Britain awards.[5] An exhibition based on the book was held at Dulwich Picture Gallery in the summer of 2013. His most recent book was I Am Spain: The Spanish Civil War and the Men and Women who went to Fight Fascism (2012).
References
[edit]- ^ "About me". David Boyd Haycock. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 31 March 2011.
- ^ Haycock, David Boyd (2002). Paul Nash. Tate Publishing. ISBN 1-85437-436-2. OCLC 50176269.
- ^ Purves, Libby (6 June 2008). "Mortal Coil by David Boyd Haycock and Not Dead Yet by Julia Neuberger". Times Online. Retrieved 21 February 2011.[dead link]
- ^ Uglow, Jenny (21 November 2009). "A Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War by David Boyd Haycock". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 February 2011.
- ^ a b Hartford, Maggie (23 October 2010). "Double delight for author David". Oxford Times. Retrieved 21 February 2011.
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