Felipe Fernández-Armesto
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Felipe Fernández-Armesto (born 1950) is a British historian and author of several popular works of history.
He was born in London, his father was the Spanish journalist Felipe Fernández Armesto and his mother was Betty Millan de Fernandez-Armesto, a British-born journalist and co-founder and editor of The Diplomatist, the in-house journal of the diplomatic corps in London. Fernández-Armesto is Professor of Global Environmental History at Queen Mary, University of London, and a member of the Faculty of Modern History at Oxford University.
From September 2005, he has been Principe de Asturias Chair in Spanish Culture and Civilization at Tufts University.
Fernández-Armesto gained media attention in 2007 for his alleged brutalising by five policemen in Atlanta, Georgia as a result of jaywalking.