Nigel Rodgers


Nigel Rodgers is a British writer, environmentalist and critic.
Rodgers has a degree in history and history of art from Cambridge University.
He is the founder of Pipedown, the Campaign for Freedom from Piped Music, and is a member of the Educational Writers' Group of the Society of Authors.

Work

He has written 15 books including Incredible Optical Illusions ; The Traveller's Atlas with John Man and Chris Schüler ; Hitler and Churchill ; Philosophers Behaving Badly with Mel Thompson; Roman Architecture ; Roman Empire ; Understand Existentialism with Mel Thompson ; Existentialism Made Easy with Mel Thompson ; The Greek World ; The Art and Architecture of Ancient Greece ; Why Noise Matters with Arline Bronzaft, Francis McManus, John Stewart and Val Weedon ; The Dandy — Peacock or Enigma? and The Umbrella Unfurled.
His latest books are Manet: his Life and Work The Bruegels and The Colosseum, a guide book-cum-history about Rome's most famous monument, from its inauguration in AD80 to its recent triumphant restoration, published in May 2018. His books have been translated into fourteen languages.