Nicolas Kinloch was born in Oxford and educated at Reigate Grammar School. He read Modern History at the University of Liverpool, completed with a PGCE with Distinction at the University of Bath and then taught in a Teachers' College in northern Nigeria. He was Head of History at the Netherhall School and Sixth Form College Cambridge until 2005, He was then Professional Tutor responsible for all aspects of staff training and development until his retirement in 2012; he also taught Latin and Russian. He worked as a history mentor for the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, for many years.
Since then he has been a lecturer for the International Programme at Pembroke College, Cambridge and at Meiji and Waseda universities in Tokyo. He has also worked for the Prince's Teaching Institute and taught at CATS College and Long Road Sixth Form College in Cambridge.
He has also been a Teacher Fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He has worked for the Council of Europe training history teachers in Estonia and Latvia and led study days for the Imperial War Museum's Education Department. He spends part of each year in Kazakhstan where he trains both teacher and teacher-trainers.
He was a regular writer and reviewer for the BBC History Magazine from 2000-2007 and was editor of Hindsight, the GCSE history journal, as well as Teaching History, the secondary education journal of the UK Historical Association. He was Deputy President of the Historical Association 2004-2007 and is an Honorary Fellow.
He has a particular interest in Holocaust education and has lectured and published widely in this area, including speaking at the Prince of Wales Education Teaching Institute in 2006. His most recent book National Social Racial Policy, was published in January 2015 and his most recent article, Hulegu Khan: A Mongol Ruler in History Today in 2017.
He has travelled in many parts of the world including places as diverse as Greenland, Kamchatka, West Papua and Easter Island.
He likes lots of questions, especially the ones he can answer.
