Bill Purdue

Bill Purdue is reader in British history at The Open University and staff tutor in Arts for The Open University in the North. He lives at Allendale in Northumberland. He has been with The Open University since 1976 having previously lectured at Newcastle Polytechnic and before that been an instructor lieutenant in the Royal Navy.
His publications include The Second World War (1999), and his study of the survival of monarchies in the modern world, Long to Reign?, has just been published.
He and his history department colleague, James Chapman, an expert in the history of film, are the authors of the OU Study Pack The People’s War?