Nigel Rodgers

{{Short description|British writer (born 1953)}}

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| field = Art, Philosophy, Architecture, History

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Nigel Rodgers (born 1952) is a British writer, environmentalist and critic.

Rodgers has a degree in history and history of art from Cambridge University.{{Cite web |url=http://www.nigelrodgers.co.uk/ |title=Nigel Rodgers – author & environmentalist |access-date=8 February 2015 |archive-date=10 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170310220051/http://www.nigelrodgers.co.uk/ |url-status=dead }}

He is the founder of Pipedown, the Campaign for Freedom from Piped Music,{{Cite web | title=Pipedown {{!}} The campaign for freedom from piped music | url=http://pipedown.org.uk | access-date=2025-02-25 | website=pipedown.org.uk}} and is a member of the Educational Writers' Group of the Society of Authors.

Work

He has written 15 books including Incredible Optical Illusions (Simon & Schuster 1998); The Traveller's Atlas with John Man and Chris Schüler (1999); Hitler and Churchill (Hodder 2001); Philosophers Behaving Badly with Mel Thompson;Rodgers, N., & Thompson, M. (2005). Philosophers behaving badly. London: Peter Owen. Roman Architecture (2006); Roman Empire (2008); Understand Existentialism with Mel Thompson (Hodder, 2010); Existentialism Made Easy with Mel Thompson (Hodder, 2011); The Greek World (2010); The Art and Architecture of Ancient Greece (2012); Why Noise Matters with Arline Bronzaft, Francis McManus, John Stewart and Val Weedon (Routledge 2011); The Dandy — Peacock or Enigma? Rodgers, N. (2012). The Dandy: Peacock or enigma?. London: Bene Factum. and The Umbrella Unfurled (2013).

His latest books are Manet: his Life and Work (2015) The Bruegels (2016) and The Colosseum, a guide book-cum-history about Rome's most famous monument, from its inauguration in AD80 to its recent triumphant restoration, published in May 2018. His books have been translated into fourteen languages.

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