Colin Shindler

Colin Shindler (born 1949) is an English author, social historian and Affiliated Lecturer in History at Cambridge University.
Life and career.
Born in Manchester, Colin Shindler graduated with a degree in History from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he later completed his PhD thesis on Hollywood and the Great Depression. Since 1998 he has been lecturing and teaching at Cambridge on films and American history.
He has written numerous books on British and American cultural history with an emphasis on the impact of sport and film on modern society. "Manchester United Ruined My Life" and "Manchester City Ruined My Life" are a pair of memoirs about his support for Manchester City. He also wrote the screenplay for the 1988 film "Buster" and worked as a television producer in England between 1977 and 1996.
His older brother is the lawyer Geoffrey Shindler.
He should not be confused with another English academic and historian, also called Colin Shindler, born in 1946, who specialises in the history of modern Israel.