Keith A. P. Sandiford
Keith Arlington Patrick Sandiford GCM is a Barbadian-born Canadian historian. He has been professor emeritus at the University of Manitoba since 2002.
Life and career
Sandiford was born in Barbados and educated at Combermere School in Bridgetown. He received a BA from the University College of West Indies in 1960, an MA from the University of Toronto in 1961, and a PhD from the University of Toronto in 1966. He married Lorraine Small in 1963, and they have two children.Sandiford taught history at the University of Manitoba from 1966 to 1998, chaired the Teaching Advisory Committee from 1986 to 1993, and has been professor emeritus since 2002. He received the Gold Crown of Merit from the Government of Barbados in 2004. He specialises in social history of the 19th and 20th centuries, with a particular interest in the importance of cricket in society. He says: "Having visited several parts of the Commonwealth in the twentieth century, I remain convinced that Bradman, Grace, and Sobers are immeasurably more important in the overall scheme of things than Disraeli, Gladstone, and Palmerston."
Books
Great Britain and the Schleswig-Holstein Question: A Study in Diplomacy, Politics, and Public Opinion 100 Years of Organised Cricket in Barbados, 1892–1992 Cricket and the Victorians Everton DeCourcey Weekes Combermere School and the Barbadian Society Clyde Leopold Walcott Frank Worrell Cricket Nurseries of Colonial Barbados: The Elite Schools, 1865–1966 Gary Sobers The Imperial Game: Cricket, Culture and Society Cassius: From Wharf Boy to Role Model: The Life and Times of an Extraordinary Barbadian Wes Hall At the Crease with Gary Sobers: His Partnerships in Test Cricket J. D. C. Goddard The Three Ws of West Indian Cricket: A Comparative Batting Analysis 25 Years of Pride and Industry: The Barbados Association of Winnipeg, Inc., 1977–2002 Caribbean Millennium Project: Impact of Caribbean Immigration on the Development of Manitoba 1950–2002 Sonny Ramadhin 75 Years of West Indies Cricket: 1928–2003 Roy Edwin Marshall Alfred Lewis Valentine Cricket at Kensington, 1895–2005 A Black Studies Primer: Heroes and Heroines of the African Diaspora Some Barbadian-Canadians: A Biographical DictionaryHis books on the West Indian cricketers Weekes, Walcott, Worrell, Sobers, Hall, Goddard, Ramadhin, Marshall and Valentine are short volumes in the Famous Cricketers series published by The Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians.