Andy Beckett

Andy Beckett (born 1969) is a British journalist and historian. He writes for The Guardian, the London Review of Books and The New York Times magazine.^[1]

He studied Modern History at Balliol College, Oxford,^[2] and journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.^[3]

Works

• Pinochet in Piccadilly: Britain and Chile's Hidden History (London: Faber & Faber, 2002).
• When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the Seventies (London: Faber & Faber, 2009).
• Promised You A Miracle: Why 1980–82 Made Modern Britain (London: Allen Lane, 2015).
• The Searchers: Five Rebels, Their Dream of a Different Britain, and Their Many Enemies (London: Allen Lane, 2024).