renown.’ Zeldin's thinking has been fed and encouraged by invitations to advise decision-makers in finance, law, medicine, IT, consulting, transport, manufacturing, insurance, design, arts, advertising, retailing, energy, human resources, government, and international organisations, and by being appointed a professor honoris causa of HEC, the Paris Business School, and an associate fellow of Oxford University's Said Business School's executive education programme as well as of Green Templeton College, Oxford, whose remit is human welfare in the broadest sense. He has been helped in understanding where the obstacles to innovation are most formidable as a guest of the World Economic Forum, the Australian Future Summit, the Creative Leadership Summit, Mrs Sonia Gandhi's Conference in New Delhi, as an advisor to the Greek Cultural Olympics, a vice-president of Culture Action Europe, a member of the EU commission which established the European Voluntary Service, a participant in the work of the Council of Europe, a member of the BBC Brains Trust and the management committee of the Society of Authors, an Associate of the Demos Think Tank, a Patron of the National Academy of Writing, a Trustee of the Wytham Hall Medical Charity for the Homeless and the Amar International Appeal for Refugees, and a visiting professor at Harvard and the University of Southern California Management Today cited him in its New Guru Guide for the 21st century as ‘one of Britain’s leading intellects’. Publications The Political System of Napoleon III (1958) Edited (with Anne Troisier de Diaz) Émile Ollivier, Journal: 1946-1863 (1961) Émile Ollivier and the Liberal Empire of Napoleon III (1963) Conflicts in French Society: Anticlericalism, Education and Morals in the Nineteenth Century: Essays (1970) France, 1848-1945: Volume I - Ambition, Love and Politics (1973) Volume II - Intellect, Taste and Anxiety (1977) (Oxford History of Modern Europe series). Rearranged and reissued with additional material as: History of French Passions: vol 1: Ambition and Love; vol 2: Intellect and Pride; vol 3: Taste and Corruption; vol 4: Politics and Anger; vol 5: Anxiety and Hypocrisy (1979-81) The French (1982) Foreword to Jeremy Jennings, Georges Sorel: The Character and Development of His Thought (1985) Introduction to Le tunnel sous la Manche: chronique d'une passion franco-anglaise (1987) Happiness (novel) (1988) An Intimate History of Humanity (1994) Conversation (2000) Guide to an Unknown City (2004) Guide to an Unknown University (2006) Gary Hill & Gerry Judah (with Jenny Blyth) (2007) The Hidden Pleasures of Life: