I didn't really teach him much, I just let him get on with it." Career Īfter graduating he declined offers to pursue an academic career. The marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm was his tutor at Cambridge and described Ascherson as "perhaps the most brilliant student I ever had. He then attended King's College, Cambridge, where he read history. Before going to university, he did his National Service as an officer in the Royal Marines, serving from July 1951 to September 1952, and seeing combat in Malaya. His work has appeared in The Guardian and The New York Review of Books.Īscherson was born in Edinburgh on 5 October 1932, son of a Naval officer of Jewish ancestry and a mother from a London family of Scottish descent his elder half-sister (by his father's first marriage) was the artist Pamela Ascherson. Ascherson is the author of several books on the history of Poland and Ukraine.
He has been described by Radio Prague as "one of Britain's leading experts on central and eastern Europe". Appearing on television discussion programme After Dark in 1987Ĭharles Neal Ascherson (born 5 October 1932) is a Scottish journalist and writer.
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