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Paul Addison
Portrait photograph
Born(1943-05-03)3 May 1943
Whittington, Staffordshire, England
Died21 January 2020(2020-01-21) (aged 76)
Edinburgh, Scotland
Spouse
Rosy Sheehan
(m. 1979)
Children2
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
Doctoral advisorA.J.P. Taylor
Academic work
DisciplinePolitical history
Sub-discipline20th Century Britain and World War II
InstitutionsUniversity of Edinburgh
Notable studentsGordon Brown
Notable worksThe Road to 1945 (1975)

Paul Addison, FRSE (born Paul Addison Wilson Walker) (3 May 1943 – 21 January 2020) was a British historian known for his research on the political history of Britain during the Second World War and the post-war period. Addison was part of the first generation of academic historians to study the conflict and is most notable for The Road to 1945 (1975) which traced the origins of the post-war consensus into the wartime period.

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