John Darwin | |
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Born | Gareth John Darwin 29 June 1948 Exeter, Devon, England |
Nationality | British |
Title | Professor of Global and Imperial History |
Spouse |
Caroline Atkinson (m. 1973) |
Children | Three |
Awards | Wolfson History Prize (2008) |
Academic background | |
Education | Brockenhurst Grammar School |
Alma mater | University of Oxford (MA, DPhil) |
Thesis | The Lloyd George coalition government and Britain's imperial policy in Egypt and the Middle East, 1918-1922 (1976) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | History |
Institutions | University of Reading University of Oxford Nuffield College, Oxford |
Doctoral students | Andrew Thompson[1] |
Gareth John Darwin CBE FBA (born 29 June 1948[2]) is a British historian and academic, who specialises in the history of the British Empire.[3] From 1984 to 2019, he was the Beit Lecturer in Commonwealth History at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford.[2] He was a lecturer in history at the University of Reading between 1972 and 1984.