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J. M. Roberts

John Morris Roberts CBE (14 April 1928 – 30 May 2003) was a British historian with many published works. From 1979 to 1985, he was vice chancellor of the University of Southampton, and from 1985 to 1994, he was warden of Merton College, Oxford. He also wrote and presented the BBC TV series The Triumph of the West, first broadcast in 1985.

Not to be confused with Jon H. Roberts.

J. M. Roberts

CBE

John Morris Roberts

(1928-04-14)14 April 1928
Bath, England, UK

30 May 2003(2003-05-30) (aged 75)

Roadwater, Somerset, England, UK

British

University of Oxford (B.A.; M.A.; PhD)

Historian, author, professor, TV presenter

World history

Legacy[edit]

The John Roberts Memorial Fund was established in his honour at Merton College in 2003, with the aim of increasing the financial support available to undergraduate and graduate students. The college hoped that the first recipient would be a history graduate.


When Roberts' The Mythology of the Secret Societies was republished in 2008, the back cover contained the following message: "We are living at a time when conspiracy theories are rife and the notion of secret plans for world domination under the guise of religious cults or secret societies is perhaps considered more seriously than ever."

Personal life[edit]

On 10 September 1960, at Milton Abbas, Roberts married (Mariabella) Rosalind Gardiner. The marriage was dissolved in 1964. At Oxford on 29 August 1964 Roberts married Judith Cecilia Mary Armitage, a schoolteacher, and they had one son and two daughters.[3][7]

Europe: 1880–1945 (London: Longmans, 1967. 2nd corrected and revised edition, 1970. 3rd edition, 2000  978-0-582-35745-7)

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The Mythology of the Secret Societies (1972; reprint edition, Watkins, 2008  978-1-905857-44-9)

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History of the World (New York: , 1976). ISBN 978-0-394-49675-7

Knopf

Revolution and Improvement: The Western World, 1775–1847 (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1976).  978-0-297-77048-0

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The (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978). ISBN 978-0-19-289069-6

French Revolution

An Illustrated World History (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1980. 8 volumes)

The Age of Upheaval: The World since 1914 (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981).  978-0-14-064008-3

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The Triumph of the West: The Origin, Rise, and Legacy of (London: British Broadcasting Corporation, 1985). ISBN 978-0-563-20070-3

Western Civilization

A Short History of the World (1993).  978-0-19-511504-8

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A History of Europe (New York: 1996).  978-0-7139-9204-5

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The Age of Diverging Traditions (London: , 1998). ISBN 978-0-7054-3660-1

Time-Life

The Age of Revolution (London: Time-Life, 1998).  978-0-7054-3690-8

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and Classical Greece (London: Time-Life, 1998). ISBN 978-0-7054-3640-3

Eastern Asia

The Penguin History of the Twentieth Century (1999).  978-0-14-027631-2

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Twentieth Century: A History of the World From 1901 to the Present (London: Allen Lane, 1999).  978-0-7139-9257-1

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The New History of the World (6th Edition, 2013  978-0-19-521927-2)

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Portrait of John Morris Roberts by Tai-Shan Schierenberg on the Art UK website