Sir David Nicholas Cannadine is a British author and historian who specialises in modern history, Britain and the history of business and philanthropy. He is currently the Dodge Professor of History at Princeton University, a visiting professor of history at Oxford University, and the editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. He was president of the British Academy between 2017 and 2021, the UK's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. He also serves as the chairman of the trustees of the National Portrait Gallery in London and vice-chair of the editorial board of Past & Present.

The Invention of Tradition (Canto)
1983
ISBN 9780521437738
The pleasures of the past
1989
ISBN 9780002156646
The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy
1990
ISBN 9780375703683
Class in Britain
1998
ISBN 9780300077032
Ornamentalism
2001
ISBN 9780195157949
What Is History Now?
2002
ISBN 9781403933362
Mellon
2006
ISBN 9780739340233
The undivided past
2013
ISBN 9781846141324
Victorious Century
2018
ISBN 9780525557913