Sir David Cannadine is Dodge Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University, and was the editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography from 2014 to 2026. He is the author of many books, including The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy, Ornamentalism, Class in Britain and The Undivided Past, as well as of biographies of G.M Trevelyan, Andrew W. Mellon, Margaret Thatcher, King George V and Queen Elizabeth II. He is the general editor of two major series: The Penguin History of Britain and The Penguin History of Europe. Victorious Century, 1800-1906 is his volume in the former series.