John Darwin (historian)

John Darwin
Born
Gareth John Darwin

(1948-06-29) 29 June 1948 (age 76)
Exeter, Devon, England
NationalityBritish
TitleProfessor of Global and Imperial History
Spouse
Caroline Atkinson
(m. 1973)
ChildrenThree
AwardsWolfson History Prize (2008)
Academic background
EducationBrockenhurst Grammar School
Alma materUniversity of Oxford (MA, DPhil)
ThesisThe Lloyd George coalition government and Britain's imperial policy in Egypt and the Middle East, 1918-1922 (1976)
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
InstitutionsUniversity of Reading
University of Oxford
Nuffield College, Oxford
Doctoral studentsAndrew 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.

  1. ^ Thompson, Andrew Stuart (1994). Thinking imperially? Imperial pressure groups and the idea of Empire in late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain. bodleian.ox.ac.uk (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.260092. Retrieved 3 June 2016.
  2. ^ a b Anon (2017) "Darwin, John". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.256690 (subscription required)
  3. ^ "University of Oxford Faculty of History > About the Faculty > Profile Dr John Darwin Dr John Darwin". Archived from the original on 28 December 2013. Retrieved 25 December 2013.