Simon Targett
English historian and journalist (born 1964)
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Simon Targett (born 1964) is an English historian, lecturer and freelance journalist. He is a former associate editor of the Financial Times.[1][2] In March 2018 Barnes & Noble included his book New World, Inc.: The Making of America by England’s Merchant Adventurers, co-written with American business writer John Butman, in its list of best history books of the month.[3][4]
Targett has a PhD in History from the University of Cambridge.[4]
In 2024 he was elected chair of the Richmond Local History Society in Richmond, London.[5][6] He has given talks to the society on George Vancouver,[7] on Robert Walpole[8] and on Richmond and Mortlake’s part in the founding of America and the launching of the British Empire.[9]
Works
Books
- (with John Butman) New World, Inc: The Making of America by England's Merchant Adventurers, 432 pp. (Little, Brown and Company, 2018) ISBN 978-0316307888[10][11]
- (with Michael J. Silverstein, Abheek Singhi, Carol Liao and David Michael). The 10 Trillion Dollar Prize: Captivating the Newly Affluent in China and India (Harvard Business Review Press, 2012) ISBN 978-1422187050[12]
Journal articles
- "A house, a tomb, a monkey puzzle tree, a fight and a book of discovery: George Vancouver's connection with Petersham, Kew and Richmond". Richmond History: Journal of the Richmond Local History Society. 44: 46–56. 2024. ISSN 0263-0958.
- "Sir Robert Walpole, Britain's first Prime Minister, and his connections with Richmond". Richmond History: Journal of the Richmond Local History Society. 43: 7–17. 2023. ISSN 0263-0958.
- "A momentous conversation in Richmond Palace: the three secrets that Francis Drake told Queen Elizabeth on his return from circumnavigating the world". Richmond History: Journal of the Richmond Local History Society. 41: 86–92. 2020. ISSN 0263-0958.
- Targett, Simon (1994). "Government and Ideology during the Age of Whig Supremacy: The Political Argument of Sir Robert Walpole's Newspaper Propagandists". The Historical Journal. 37 (2). Cambridge University Press: 289–317. doi:10.1017/S0018246X00016484. ISSN 0018-246X.[13]
Personal life
Targett lives in St Margarets, London.[7]