Tim Crook

Tim Crook is a longstanding journalist, author and academic, and Emeritus Professor of Goldsmiths, University of London.

As the university’s historian, he is currently researching and writing a six volume series on Goldsmiths’ history.

He has a PhD from Royal Holloway in Media Arts, an LLM and LLB from the University of London and two BAs from the Open University in Literature and Film and Television History.

He taught media law, radio, journalism and scriptwriting in Goldsmiths’ Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies for 30 years, is on the Council and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Journalists where he was President between 2020 and 2022 and is currently chair of its Charity Committee.

He is co-editor of The George Orwell Studies Journal and has written many academic books published by Routledge and Palgrave Macmillan. His biographies of the intelligence officer and spy fiction writer Alexander Wilson were the basis for the BBC Television drama series Mrs Wilson.

He researches and writes on the history of antisemitism in journalism, drama and literature and also writes fiction under the non-de-plume William Mulder.