Victoria Schofield
{{Short description|British author and historian}}
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Rosemary Victoria Schofield is a British author, biographer, and historian.{{Cite news|url=https://www.commonwealthroundtable.co.uk/organisation/member/victoria-schofield/|title=Victoria Schofield {{!}} The Round Table|work=The Round Table|access-date=2018-04-19|language=en-GB}} Her most recent books are a memoir of her thirty year friendship with Benazir Bhutto,{{cite web |last1=Wilkinson |first1=Isambard |title=The ruthless politics of Pakistan — and the curse of being a Bhutto |url=https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-ruthless-politics-of-pakistan-and-the-curse-of-being-a-bhutto |website=Spectator online |access-date=13 November 2020}}{{cite web |last1=Schofield |first1=Victoria |title=‘From Oxford pals to political prisoner – my 30-year friendship with Benazir Bhutto’ |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/politics/oxford-pals-political-prisoner-30-year-friendship-benazir/ |website=Telegraph online |access-date=13 November 2020}} a two volume history of the Black Watch{{cite web|title=Victoria Schofield's The Black Watch launches in London|url=http://headofzeus.com/article/victoria-schofields-black-watch-launches-london|access-date=9 August 2017}}Linklater, Andro. [http://images.spectator.co.uk/books/7876293/the-courage-of-countless-generations.thtml "The Courage of Countless Generations"]{{Dead link|date=May 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}. The Spectator, 2 June 2012. Retrieved 10 November 2012. and a biography of Sir John Wheeler-Bennett.Simms, Brendan. [https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10000872396390444405804577561082057775496 "The Man Who Knew Everyone"]. Wall Street Journal, 4 September 2012. Retrieved 10 November 2012. She also wrote the first full-length biography of Field Marshal Archibald Wavell[http://ehr.oxfordjournals.org/content/CXXI/494/1563.full.pdf "Wavell: Soldier and Statesman"]. The English Historical Review (2006) CXXI(494): 1563-1564. Retrieved 10 November 2012.Ziegler, Philip. [http://images.spectator.co.uk/books/21876/a-talent-for-losing.thtml "A Talent for Losing"]{{Dead link|date=May 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}. The Spectator, 8 April 2006. Retrieved 10 November 2012. and edited a memoir of his life and naval career by her late father Vice Admiral B. B. Schofield.{{cite web |title=Review: With The Royal Navy in War and Peace - O'er The Dark Blue Sea |url=https://www.navybooks.com/review/product/view/id/1434/ |access-date=14 November 2020}} She regularly contributes to British national and specialist media.[http://www.victoriaschofield.com/Articles.htm Selected Articles and Features]. Official website. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
Life and career
Victoria Schofield was educated at the Royal Naval School for Girls, and at Lady Margaret Hall (LMH) of Oxford University, from which she holds a degree in Modern History. At LMH she was a close friend of Benazir Bhutto, whom she succeeded as President of the Oxford Union Society.[http://www.victoriaschofield.com/Personal.php Personal information]. Official website. Retrieved 23 March 2016. She was the visiting Alistair Horne Fellow at St Antony's College, University of Oxford in 2004-2005.[http://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/AlistairHorneFellowship2012.pdf The Alistair Horne Fellowship (with list of past Fellows)]. St Antony's College, Oxford. Retrieved 10 November 2012. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120224084839/http://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/AlistairHorneFellowship2012.pdf |date=24 February 2012 }}
Schofield is married to Stephen Willis and has three adult children.
Published works
- Bhutto: Trial and Execution. London: Cassell, 1979. {{ISBN|9780304305391}}.
- The United Nations: People, Politics, and Power. Hove: Wayland, 1979. {{ISBN|9780853406563}}.
- Every Rock, Every Hill: The Plain Tale of the North-West Frontier and Afghanistan. London: Pimlico, 1984, 1987. {{ISBN|978-0712616256}}.
- Kashmir in the Crossfire. London, Tauris, 1996. {{ISBN|9781860640360}}.
- (ed.) Old Roads, New Highways: Fifty Years of Pakistan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. {{ISBN|9780195778458}}.
- The House That Fell Down: A Diary of a Domestic Disaster. London: John Murray, 2001. {{ISBN|9780719563294}}.
- Wavell: Soldier and Statesman. London: John Murray, 2006. {{ISBN|9780719563201}}.
- Afghan Frontier: Feuding and Fighting in Central Asia / At the Crossroads of Conflict. London: Tauris Parke, 2003, 2010. {{ISBN|9781417556922}}.
- Kashmir in Conflict: India, Pakistan, and the Unending War. London: Tauris, 2000, 2003, 2010. {{ISBN|9781860645457}}.
- Witness to History: The Life of John Wheeler-Bennett. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012. {{ISBN|9780300179019}}.
- The Highland Furies: The Black Watch 1739-1899. London: Quercus, 2012. {{ISBN|9781849165501}}.
- The Black Watch: Fighting in the Front Line, 1899-2006. London: Head of Zeus, 2017. {{ISBN|9781784979973}}.
- With The Royal Navy in War and Peace: O'er the Dark Blue Sea (Editor). Yorkshire: Pen & Sword, 2018. {{ISBN|9781526736475}}
- The Fragrance of Tears: My Friendship with Benazir Bhutto. London: Apollo, 2020. {{ISBN|9781789544459}}.
- The Rescue Ships and the Convoys, Saving Lives during the Second World War. (Editor & Author) Yorkshire: Pen & Sword, 2024, {{ISBN|1036102661}}
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.victoriaschofield.com/}}.
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Category:Alumni of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
Category:British military historians
Category:Writers about the Kashmir conflict