for the London Guardian, the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books. Books In Defiance of Oligarchy: The Tory Party 1714-1760 (1982) Britons: Forging of a Nation 1707-1837 (1992) Captives: Britain, Empire and the World 1600-1850 (2002) The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History (2007) Taking Stock of Taking Liberties: A Personal View (2008) Acts of Union and Disunion (2014) The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World (2021) Honours Colley was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2009 and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2022 Birthday Honours for services to history. Honorary degree, University of Oxford (2021) Honorary degree DLit, Queen's University Belfast (2019) John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship (2017) Senior Fellowship, Collegium of Advanced Study, Uppsala, Sweden (2017) Birkelund Fellowship, Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, New York (2013) Honorary degree, University of Hull (2012) Fletcher Jones Distinguished Fellowship, Huntington Library, CA (2010) Fellow of Academia Europaea (2010) Honorary degree, University of Bristol (2006) Honorary degree, University of East Anglia (2005) Honorary Fellowship, Christ's College, Cambridge (2005) Visiting Fellowship, Humanities Research Centre, ANU, Canberra (2005) Glaxo-Smith-Kline Senior Fellowship, National Humanities Center, North Carolina (2005) Honorary degree, University of Essex (2004) Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (1999) Hooker Distinguished Visiting Professorship, McMaster University (1999) Elected Fellow of the British Academy (1999) Leverhulme Senior Personal Research Professorship (1998) Honorary degree, London Southbank University (1998) Wolfson Prize (1993) Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (1988) Morse Fellowship, Yale University (1983) Eugenie Strong Research Fellowship, Girton College, Cambridge (1975) Footnotes External links Official website Princeton History Department profile Interview On Iraq The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History named one of the "Ten Best Books" of 2007 Colley archive from The New York Review of Books Directory of Fellows of the British Academy Profile of academic career and historical ideas in British Academy Review, 2016. The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen by Linda Colley review – how the modern world was made When Constitutions Took Over the World 1949 births Academics of the London School of Economics Alumni of the University of Bristol Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire Fellows of the British Academy Fellows of the Royal Historical Society Fellows of the Royal Society