Keith Middlemas


Robert Keith Middlemas was an English historian, known for works on modern European political history.

Life

Middlemas was born in Alnwick, Northumberland on 26 May 1935. He was educated at Stowe School and then joined the Northumberland Fusiliers, before entering Pembroke College, Cambridge, graduating with a first class degree in history.
Entering the Civil Service, Middlemas worked as a House of Commons clerk for nine years. From 1967 he was a lecturer at the University of Sussex. He became a reader there in 1976, and Professor in 1986.
Middlemas published 21 books.
He died at West Burton, Sussex on 10 July 2013.

Political biographies

The Life and Times of Edward VII Baldwin: A Biography, co-written with John Barnes

European politics

Orchestrating Europe: The Informal Politics Of The European Union, 1973 95Diplomacy of Illusion: The British Government and Germany, 1937-1939 Politics in Industrial Society: The Experience of the British System Since 1911
  • ''Power and the Party: Changing Faces of Communism in Western Europe''

Other

Continental Coloured Glass Antique Colored GlassPower, Competition And The State Cabora Bassa: Engineering And Politics In Southern Africa The Double Market: Art Theft And Art Thieves Pursuit of Pleasure: High Society in the 1900s As They Really Were: The Citizens of Alnwick 1831 Industry, Unions and Government: Twenty-One Years of Nedc
  • ''Kinship and Survival: The Middlemas Name Through 600 Years''