Julia Boyd

Julia Boyd (born 1948) is a British non-fiction author.^[1]

Career

The Washington Post called Travellers in the Third Reich "riveting".^[2] It was awarded the 2018 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History.^[3] Publishers Weekly called it a "fresh, surprising perspective on how Nazi Germany was seen at the time".^[4]

The Times called A Village in the Third Reich , authored with Angelika Patel, a "fascinating deep dive into daily life",^[5] and The Scotsman, "a masterpiece of historical non-fiction".^[6] Publishers Weekly wrote, "Boyd and Patel pose difficult questions about ordinary Germans’ complicity in the horrors of the Holocaust".^[7]

Personal life

She was married to the late Sir John Boyd, a diplomat, and later Master of Churchill College, Cambridge.^[8] She lives in London.^[9][1]

Works

• The Story of Furniture, Hamlyn, 1975
• Hannah Riddell: An Englishwoman in Japan, Tuttle, 1995
• The Excellent Doctor Blackwell: The Life of the First Woman Physician, Sutton, 2005
• A Dance with the Dragon: The Vanished World of Peking’s Foreign Colony, I.B. Tauris, 2012
• Travellers in the Third Reich: The Rise of Fascism through the Eyes of Everyday People, Pegasus, 2018
• A Village in the Third Reich: How Ordinary Lives were Transformed by the Rise of Fascism, 2022. Cowritten with Angelika Patel.