Tom J. Winnifrith (1938-2020) was a historian and linguist who specialized in Eastern Romance languages and the history of the Balkan Peninsula. He wrote a number of books on these topics.

Education

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Graduated from Oxford University in 1960. In 1970 he became lecturer in English and comparative literary studies at Warwick University. Made numerous trips to south eastern Europe to study the "Latin-Greeks" or Aromanians, Vlachs as he tended to call them.

Bibliography

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Vlachs: History of a Balkan People (1987, updated 1995) Shattered Eagles, Balkan Fragments (1995) Badlands/Borderlands: A History of Northern Epirus/Southern Albania (2003) Nobody’s Kingdom: A History of Northern Albania (2020)

References

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<https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/nov/29/tom-winnifrith-obituary> <https://www.albanianinstitute.org/events/tom-winnifrith-an-albanian-odyssey/>