Keith Robbins
Keith Gilbert Robbins
His academic career began in 1963 as Assistant Lecturer in History at the
His final academic post was as Vice-Chancellor of the
In 2005 the University of Wales awarded Robbins an
He was President of the Ecclesiastical History Society (1980–81).[4] He was also a Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales and a Member of its inaugural Council.
He died on 12 September 2019 at the age of 79.[5]
Summary of life
Education
Bristol Grammar School, 1949-58:
State Scholarship 1957:
Demy of Magdalen College, Oxford, 1958-61:
Gladstone Memorial Prize 1960 (Oxford University)
Prox. acc. Gibbs Scholarship 1960 (Oxford University)
First Class (Congratulatory), Modern History, 1961
Senior Scholar, St. Antony's College, Oxford, 1961–63
Academic career
Assistant Lecturer/Lecturer, University of York, 1963–71
Professor and Head of Department of History,
Professor of Modern History, University of Glasgow, 1980-91 (Head of department, 1981–91)
Vice-Chancellor,
Senior Vice-Chancellor, (Federal) University of Wales, 1 September 1995 – 31 August 2001 (a Cardiff-based post held concurrently with the above)
Inaugurating Chairman Cttee. of Heads of Higher Education, Wales 1996-1998
Chairman, Higher Education Wales Charitable Trust 1996-1998
Special Visiting professor,
Visiting professor,
Fred Alexander Fellow, Department of History, University of Western Australia, July–August 1995
Degrees
B.A. (1961); M.A. (1970); D.Phil. (1964) Oxford;
D.Litt. (1985) Glasgow.
Hon.D.Litt. (1999) West of England
Hon.D.Litt, (2005) Wales
Fellowships
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1991).
Hon. Fellow in European History, University of Nanjing, China (P.R.)
Hon. Fellow, University of Wales, Lampeter (2006)
Fellow of the Historical Association (2007).
Hon. Fellow, Bangor University (2010)
Founding Fellow, Learned Society of Wales (2010) Council (2010–17)
Professional bodies
Member of Council and a vice president, Historical Association, 1976-; President, Historical Association 1988-1991
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society 1970; Member of Council of the Royal Historical Society 1980–1983; a Vice-president 1984-1988
President of the Ecclesiastical History Society, 1980-1981
Former Member, Scottish Records Advisory Council
D.E.S. Postgraduate Awards Panel (History), 1974–1976; Chairman 1976
President, Welsh Religious History Society 1993-2000
Humanities Research Board, British Academy 1994–1997; Chairman of its Research Committee, 1995-1997
Board of Management, Arts and Humanities Research Board 1998-2003
Works
Editor
Editor, History (1977-1986)
Editorial Board, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 1978-1993
Editorial Board, Journal of Indian History 1985
Publications Committee, latterly chairman, Ecclesiastical History Society, 1978-1983
Publications Committee, Royal Historical Society, 1980-1985
Editorial Board, National Identities 1998-2008
Author
- Munich 1938 (London, 1968)
- Sir Edward Grey: A Biography of Lord Grey of Fallodon (London, 1971)
- The Abolition of War: The British Peace Movement, 1914 - 1919 (Cardiff, 1976)
- The Eclipse of a Great Power: Modern Britain, 1870-1975 (London, 1983). Second Edition, (London, 1994)
- The First World War (Oxford, 1984)
- Appeasement (Oxford, 1988)
- Great Britain: Identities, Institutions and the Idea of Britishness (London, 1998)
- Churchill (Profiles In Power) (London, 2000) ISBN 978-0582437593
- The World Since 1945: A Concise History (Oxford, 2002) ISBN 978-0192803146
- Britain and Europe, 1789-2005 (London, 2005)
- Oxford History of the Christian Church: England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales 1900-2000 (Oxford, 2008)
- Transforming the World: A Global Political History since World War II (Basingstoke, 2013)
- The History of Oxford University Press: Volume IV: 1970 to 2004 (Oxford, 2017) ISBN 978-0199574797