During his studies in East Berlin, he was under surveillance from the Stasi, which served as the basis for his 1997 book The File. Garton Ash was educated at St Edmund's School, Hindhead, Surrey, before going on to Sherborne School, a public school in Dorset in South West England, followed by Exeter College, Oxford, where he studied Modern History.įor postgraduate study he went to St Antony's College, Oxford, and then, in the still divided Berlin, the Free University in West Berlin and the Humboldt University in East Berlin. His father was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge and was involved in finance, as well as being a Royal Artillery officer in the British Army during the Second World War. Garton Ash was born to John Garton Ash (1919–2014) and Lorna Judith Freke. He has also examined the role of Europe in the world and the challenge of combining political freedom and diversity, especially in relation to free speech. He has written about the former Communist regimes of that region, their experience with the secret police, the Revolutions of 1989 and the transformation of the former Eastern Bloc states into member states of the European Union. Most of his work has been concerned with the contemporary history of Europe, with a special focus on Central and Eastern Europe. He is Professor of European Studies at Oxford University. Timothy Garton Ash CMG FRSA (born 12 July 1955) is a British historian, author and commentator.
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