Noel Robert Malcolm (26 December 1956) is a British historian and writer. Malcolm attended the famous Eton College, graduated from Peterhouse and received his doctorate from Trinity College, Cambridge, where he also taught for a time. He worked as an editor for the British weekly The Spectator , and as a columnist for the Daily Telegraph , but in 1995 he replaced his work in newspapers, returning to the call of a scientist. He is a member of the British Academy.