Nigel Rodgers

Nigel Rodgers (born 1952) is a British writer, environmentalist and critic.

Rodgers has a degree in history and history of art from Cambridge University.^[1] He is the founder of Pipedown, the Campaign for Freedom from Piped Music,^[2] and is a member of the Educational Writers' Group of the Society of Authors.

Work

Rodgers has written 15 books including Incredible Optical Illusions (Simon & Schuster 1998); The Traveller's Atlas with John Man and Chris Schüler (1999); Hitler and Churchill (Hodder 2001); Philosophers Behaving Badly with Mel Thompson;^[3] Roman Architecture (2006); Roman Empire (2008); Understand Existentialism with Mel Thompson (Hodder, 2010); Existentialism Made Easy with Mel Thompson (Hodder, 2011); The Greek World (2010); The Art and Architecture of Ancient Greece (2012); Why Noise Matters with Arline Bronzaft, Francis McManus, John Stewart and Val Weedon (Routledge 2011); The Dandy — Peacock or Enigma? ^[4] and The Umbrella Unfurled (2013).^[5] His latest books are Manet: his Life and Work (2015) The Bruegels (2016) and The Colosseum, a vividly illustrated guide book-cum-history about Rome's most famous monument, from its grand inauguration in AD80 to its recent triumphant restoration, published in May 2018. His books have been translated into fourteen languages.

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