Life and Work
Martin Bernal was born in 1937 in London, the son of the physicist John Desmond Bernal and artist Margaret Gardiner. He was educated at Dartington Hall School, then at King's College, Cambridge, where he was awarded a degree in 1961 with first-class Honours in the Oriental Tripos. At that time he specialised in the language and history of China, and spent some time at the Peking University. He carried on as a graduate student at Cambridge, and with the assistance of the Harkness Commonwealth Fellowship also at University of California, Berkeley and Harvard University, finishing his PhD in Cambridge in 1965 when he was elected a fellow there.
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