Famous History Graduates
David Nicholls demonstrates that history, rather than being ‘irrelevant’, is a passport to success in the world of work.
What do the following have in common: Prince Charles, Gordon Brown, the BBC correspondent Jeremy Bowen, the Bishop of London, the barrister Michael Mansfield, the General Secretary of the TUC, the art critic Sir Roy Strong, the novelist Salman Rushdie, the comedian Sacha Baron Cohen (Ali G), pop-singer Neil Tennant, the vice-chancellor of Oxford University, the ex-England footballer Steve Coppell, millionaire businessman Gerald Corbett and the chairman of Manchester United? Answer: they are all history graduates. They represent just a small sample of the many famous people who studied history at university.
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