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British historian (born 1936)

Henry Arthur Kamen (born 4 October 1936 in Rangoon) is a British historian who has published extensively on Spain and the Spanish Empire.

Biography

Henry Arthur Kamen was born in Rangoon, British Burma (now Myanmar) in 1936,^[1] the son of Maurice Joseph Kamen, an Anglo-Burmese engineer working for Shell Oil, and his wife, Agnes Frizelle, by descent half Anglo-Irish and half Nepalese.^[2] Kamen was educated at Chislehurst and Sidcup Grammar School, from where he won a Major Scholarship to study at the University of Oxford, earning his doctorate at St Antony's College.

During National Service he studied Russian, and his first book was a translation of the poems of Boris Pasternak (Boris Pasternak in the Interlude Poems 1945-1960).^{[citation needed]}

Career

Between 1966 and 1992, Kamen taught early modern Spanish history at the University of Warwick.^[3] He has worked at various universitie