Editing Simon Heffer (section)

{{Short description|British journalist and historian, born 1960}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2024}}
{{Use British English|date=June 2013}}
{{Infobox person
| name               = Simon Heffer
| birth_name         = Simon James Heffer
| birth_date         = {{birth date and age|1960|7|18|df=y}}
| birth_place        = [[Chelmsford]], [[Essex]], England
| occupation         = {{flatlist|
* Historian
* journalist
* author
* political commentator
}}
| spouse             = {{Marriage|Diana Caroline Heffer|1987}}
| children           = 2
| education          = [[King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford]]
| alma_mater         = [[Corpus Christi College, Cambridge]]
}}
'''Simon James Heffer''' (born 18 July 1960) is an English [[historian]], [[journalist]], [[author]] and political commentator. He has published several [[biographies]] and a series of books on the social history of Great Britain from the mid-nineteenth century until the end of the [[First World War]]. He was appointed professorial research fellow at the [[University of Buckingham]] in 2017.

He worked as a columnist for the ''[[Daily Mail]]'' and since 2015 has had a weekly column in ''[[The Sunday Telegraph]]''. As a political commentator, Heffer takes a [[Social conservatism|socially]] [[Conservatism in the United Kingdom|conservative]] position.