Keith Robbins

Keith Gilbert Robbins FRSE FRHistS FLSW (9 April 1940 – 12 September 2019) was a British historian and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales, Lampeter. Robbins was educated at Bristol Grammar School, and Magdalen and St Antony’s Colleges, Oxford.[1]

His academic career began in 1963 as Assistant Lecturer in History at the University of York where he subsequently became Lecturer. He moved to the University College of North Wales, Bangor, in 1971, as Professor of History and was later appointed Dean of the Faculty of Arts. In 1980 he moved to the University of Glasgow as Professor of Modern History.[2]

His final academic post was as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales, Lampeter, between 1992 until 2003, when he was succeeded by Professor Robert A Pearce. During his time as Vice-Chancellor at Lampeter, he also served as Senior Vice-Chancellor of the federal University of Wales between 1995 and 2001.[3] He was also a Welsh Supernumerary Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, for the academic years 1996/7 and 2002/3.

In 2005 the University of Wales awarded Robbins an honorary degree of DLitt in recognition of his years of service to University of Wales institutions and the field of history.

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]

Robbins's works
  • 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, 1870-1992 (London, 1994)
  • The First World War (Oxford, 1984)
  • 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

References
  1. Who's Who 2008, p. 1965
  2. Who's Who 2008, p. 1965
  3. Who's Who 2008, p. 1965
  4. Past Presidents - Ecclesiastical History Society
  5. Robbins
Academic offices
Preceded by
Brian Robert Morris		 Principal of St David's University College
1992–1996		 Succeeded by
Position Discontinued
Preceded by
New Position		 Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales, Lampeter
1996–2003		 Succeeded by
Robert A Pearce
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