British management consultant
York in 2013
Peter York
(born
Peter Wallis
; 1944) is a British
management consultant
, author and broadcaster best known for writing
Harpers & Queen
's
The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook
with
Ann Barr
. He has worked as a columnist for
The Independent on Sunday
,
GQ
and
Management Today
, and Associate of the media, analysis and networking organisation Editorial Intelligence.
Wallis was the co-founder with
Lord Stevenson
of the management consultancy SRU Ltd, and during the 1980s developed the SRU Group of nine specialist business consultancies. He was appointed Chairman of a
Department of Trade and Industry
Committee in March 1994. The committee was set up to examine the future of leisure in the UK as part of the
British Government
's 'Foresight' initiative.
SRU was sold to
Brunswick Group
in 2000.
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The relationship foundered, and SRU was bought back into private ownership. It remains private.
[2]
As Peter York, Wallis has made his most high-profile offerings, from writing the
Sloane Ranger Handbook
and being Style Editor of
Harpers & Queen
for 10 years, to financing
The Modern Review
.
He published a series of essays in social and cultural observation in the magazine
Harpers & Queen
during the late 1970s. Written in the style of
Tom Wolfe
's
new journalism
, these were collected in the book
Style Wars
(1980). Following the success of his collaboration with
Ann Barr
,
The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook
(1982), itself an extension of such social observation, he became a media commentator on English social trends and traits. A further collection of essays,
Modern Times
, was published in 1984.
Peter York's Eighties
(1996), this time co-authored with Charles Jennings, was both a book and a BBC television series.
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[4]
Dictators' Homes
(2005), published in the US under the title
Dictator Style: Lifestyles of the World's Most Colorful Despots
, explored the interior design favoured by dictators as a reflection of their despotic characters.
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citation needed
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In 2015, York presented a sixty-minute live show,
How to Become a Nicer Type of Person
, on stage in Edinburgh and London.
[5]
In November 2016 he presented
Peter York's Hipster Handbook
on
BBC Four
.
[6]
Books
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- Style Wars
(1980)
- The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook
(1982), co-authored with
Ann Barr
- Peter York's Eighties
(1996), co-authored with Charles Jennings
- Dictators' Homes
(2005)
- Cooler, Faster, More Expensive: the Return of the Sloane Ranger
(2007), with Olivia Stewart-Liberty.
- "Authenticity is a con" (2014)
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