Julia Boyd

Julia Boyd (born 1948) is a British non-fiction author. Career The Washington Post called Travellers in the Third Reich "riveting". It was awarded the 2018 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History. Publishers Weekly called it a "fresh, surprising perspective on how Nazi Germany was seen at the time". The Times called A Village in the Third Reich, authored with Angelika Patel, a "fascinating deep...

Julia Boyd (born 1948) is a British non-fiction author. Career The Washington Post called Travellers in the Third Reich "riveting". It was awarded the 2018 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History. Publishers Weekly called it a "fresh, surprising perspective on how Nazi Germany was seen at the time". The Times called A Village in the Third Reich, authored with Angelika Patel, a "fascinating deep dive into daily life", and The Scotsman, "a masterpiece of historical non-fiction". Publishers Weekly wrote, "Boyd and Patel pose difficult questions about ordinary Germans’ complicity in the horrors of the Holocaust". Personal life She was married to the late Sir John Boyd, a diplomat, and later Master of Churchill College, Cambridge. She lives in London. 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. "There is Sweet Music Here: The World of Wigmore Hall", Elliot & Thompson, 2026 References