Homelands: Chronicles of the Continent

Published: May 28, 2023, 10:09 p.m.

Timothy Garton Ash\u2019s Homelands: A Personal History of Europe (The Bodley Head - Penguin Books) charts events in recent European history from the end of the Second World War in 1945 to the Brexit referendum of 2016, with personal insights and anecdotes from the memories of the author. Homelands explores \u201cEurope\u201d beyond the borders of the EU, navigating the continent\u2019s accomplishments and crises over the past 80 years. As a European expert, and a Briton who feels that Europe is home, Timothy Garton Ash speaks to the IIEA about the personal, as well as the political, effects of Brexit as well as the wider state of play in European politics.\n\nTimothy Garton Ash is Professor of European Studies in the University of Oxford, Isaiah Berlin Professorial Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is the author of ten books of political writing, most recently Homelands: A Personal History of Europe. Mr Garton Ash also writes a column on international affairs in the\xa0Guardian, and is a regular contributor to the\xa0New York Review of Books, amongst other journals. Awards he has received for his writing include the Somerset Maugham Award, Prix Europ\xe9en de l'Essai and George Orwell Prize.