Dr Bella d’Abrera

Director, Foundations of Western Civilisation Program

Institute of Public Affairs

Dr Bella d’Abrera is the Director of The Foundations of Western Civilisation Program at the Institute of Public Affairs. She has BA in History and Spanish from Monash University, an MA in Spanish from the University of St Andrews and a PhD in History from the University of Cambridge.

She has written and illustrated a children’s book, is the author of The Tribunal of Zaragoza and Crypto-Judaism 1484-1515 and a trilogy on the English Reformation. She is currently on the Advisory Committee for the National Archives and is also member of ‘History Reclaimed’ a counter-offensive against “fake history” comprising a group of more than 40 senior UK and Anglosphere academics.

Bella is a regular contributor to The Spectator Australia, the Herald Sun, the Daily Telegraph and The Australian., and appears regularly on Sky News.