Dominic Sandbrook is a historian, broadcaster and columnist. He is best known for his best-selling series of books on life in post-war Britain- Never Had It So Good, White Heat, State of Emergency and Seasons in the Sun - and he has also written two books on recent American history, Eugene McCarthy and Mad as Hell.

His four-part series The Seventies, which he wrote and presented, aired on BBC2 in April 2012. 

He has also appeared on numerous historical documentaries on BBC Four and Channel 4, including programmes on the histories of airports, advertising, the Beatles, caravans, coronations, the countryside, Doctor Who, Edward Heath, elections, environmentalism, families, fathers, Panorama, the Queen, railway films, rudeness, sitcoms, television, Thunderbirds, and so on. He has also been a guest of Sue Perkins and Giles Coren (Supersizers ...), once at a holiday camp in the 1950s, and once at a 1970s dinner party.

On radio, his landmark 15-part series on the history of the Post Office, made for Radio 4 by Somethin' Else, was broadcast in the winter of 2011. For Radio 4, he has also written and presented an edition of the Archive Hour on our obsession with anniversaries, a series on the travails of British governance since 1945 (Slapdash Britain) and a programme on 50 years of Prime Minister's Questions (Mind Your PMQs).

He has appeared on Front Row, Night Waves and BBC2's Newsnight Review, and is a regular panellist on Radio 4's Saturday Review.

Dominic was the historical consultant to the BBC2 series The British Family and The British at Work, and the Radio 4 series 1968: Day by Day. He was also the consultant for BBC2's major drama series White Heat, written by Paula Milne, which used his book of the same name for historical background.

He is a regular columnist for the Daily Mail and a book reviewer for the Sunday Times. He has written a column in BBC History for the last five years and was previously a columnist for the Evening Standard and New Statesman. Marking their 25th anniversary in 2007, Waterstones picked him as one of their 25 Authors for the Future.

Dominic was born in Shropshire and educated at MalvernCollegebefore studying at BalliolCollege, Oxford, the Universityof St Andrewsand JesusCollege, Cambridge. He was formerly a history lecturer at Sheffield and senior fellow at the Rothermere American Institute, Universityof Oxford, but is now a full-time writer, broadcaster and Wolverhampton Wanderers fan.

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