Editing Simon Heffer (section)

=== Historian and author ===
Heffer has written biographies of the historian and essayist [[Thomas Carlyle]] and the composer [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]]. His 1998 biography of the British politician [[Enoch Powell]], ''[[Like the Roman]]'', was described by the ''[[New Statesman]]'' as "a lucid and majestic tribute" to the politician.<ref name="New Statesman_Powell">{{cite news
| url = http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2010/10/english-heffer-sentence
| date = 11 December 1998
| title = The long road to oblivion. Ian Aitken on Simon Heffer's lucid and majestic tribute to the controversial genius of Enoch Powell
| author = Ian Aitken
| work = [[New Statesman]]
| access-date = 15 March 2011| author-link = Ian Aitken (journalist)
}}</ref><ref>[http://www.faber.co.uk/content/faber-finds-enoch-powell-simon-heffer www.faber.co.uk] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130511022347/http://www.faber.co.uk/content/faber-finds-enoch-powell-simon-heffer |date=11 May 2013 }}</ref> He received his PhD in Modern History from [[Cambridge University]] for the Powell biography.<ref name=":0" />

In September 2010, Heffer published ''Strictly English: the Correct Way to Write... and Why it Matters'', a guide to [[English grammar]] and usage. The book met with some negative reception.<ref name="New Statesman_Strictly English">{{cite news
|url = https://www.newstatesman.com/books/2010/10/english-heffer-sentence
|date = 14 October 2010
|title = Strictly English: The Correct Way to Write...and Why it Matters By Simon Heffer
|author = David Crystal
|work = [[New Statesman]]
|access-date = 15 March 2011
|author-link = David Crystal
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101017034632/https://www.newstatesman.com/books/2010/10/english-heffer-sentence
 |archive-date=17 October 2010 }}</ref> Since 2010 he has published several historical works such as ''A Short History of Power'' (2010) and a series of three books on the social history of Great Britain from the mid nineteenth century until the end of the First World War: ''High Minds: the Victorians and the Birth of Modern Britain'' (2013), ''[[The Age of Decadence: Britain 1880 to 1914]]'' and ''Staring at God: Britain 1914 to 1919'' (2019).

Heffer became a professorial research fellow at the [[University of Buckingham]] in 2017.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.buckingham.ac.uk/directory/professor-simon-heffer/|title=Professor Simon Heffer|website=University of Buckingham|language=en|access-date=15 November 2019}}</ref>