trustee of the Rothschild Archive, the Gordon Brown Archive and Gladstone's Library; and of the Library of Birmingham Development Trust, the Royal Academy Trust, Historic Royal Palaces and the Wolfson Foundation. He is also 168th president of The Birmingham & Midland Institute, a vice-president of the Victorian Society, vice-chairman of the Westminster Abbey Fabric Commission, and of the editorial board of Past & Present and president of the Friends of the Imperial War Museum. Honours and distinctions Cannadine has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (1981), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (1998), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (1999), a Fellow of the British Academy (1999), and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (2005). He has been awarded the Lionel Trilling Prize (1991) and the Dean's Distinguished Award in the Humanities (1996) by Columbia University, the Dickinson Medal by the Newcomen Society (2003), the Minerva Medal of the Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow (2013), the Norton Medlicott Medal of the Historical Association (2013), and the Blenheim Award of the International Churchill Society (2016). Cannadine holds honorary degrees from the London South Bank University (2001), the University of East Anglia (2001), the University of Birmingham (2002), the University of Worcester (2011), Open University (2016), the University of London (2017), the University of Leicester (2019) and Queen's University, Belfast (2020). He is also an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Historical Research (2005), Christ's College, Cambridge (2005), the Historical Association (2011), and Clare College, Cambridge (2012) and an Honorary Churchill Fellow of Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri (2012). He was knighted for "services to scholarship" in 2009. More recently, in April 2018 Cannadine was elected an international honorary member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019. Personal life Cannadine is married to fellow historian Linda Colley. Publications Lords and Landlords: The Aristocracy and the Towns, 1774–1967 (1980) Patricians, Power and Politics in Nineteenth-century Towns (1982) (editor) 'Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat': Winston Churchill's Famous Speeches (1989) (editor) The Pleasures of the Past (1989) The First Modern Society: Essays in English History in Honour of Lawrence Stone (1989) (editor) (with A.L. Beier and James Rosenheim) The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy (1990) G.M. Trevelyan: A Life in History (1992) Aspects of Aristocracy: Grandeur and Decline in Modern Britain (1994) The