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British television presenter (born )

Tessa DunlopFRHistS (born in Scotland), is a British historian, writer and broadcaster.

She has written several oral history books and presented history programmes for the BBC, Channel 4, Discovery Channel, UKTV History and the History Channel.

Background and education

Dunlop's father was Donald Henry Dunlop (–), only son of the eminent physician, Sir Derrick Dunlop.

After Pitlochry High School, Dunlop attended the private Strathallan School, another school in Perthshire,^[1] before going up to read history at St Hilda's College, Oxford, where she won the Gertrude Easton Prize for History.^[2] She then pursued further studies in Imperialism and Culture at Sheffield Hallam University graduating as MA, before receiving a PhD in for her thesis entitled Representations of Romania in British Public and Political Discourse, –.^[3][4]

Career

After university, Dunlop joined London rad