Martin Conway (historian)

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Martin Herbert Conway (born 1960) is a British historian with a focus on the history of Europe in the 20th century.^[1] He is a Professor of Contemporary European History at the University of Oxford.^[2] His research has also focused on the political history of Belgium.^[3][4]: 35 He is the MacLellan-Warburg Fellow and a Tutor at Balliol College, Oxford, and a Fellow of Aberystwyth University.^[5] Conway is also a researcher on the history of democracy.^{[6][non-primary source needed][7]}

professor Martin Conway FRHistS
Born	Martin Herbert Conway 1960 (age 64–65) Aberystwyth, Wales
Known for	European history
Title	Professor of Contemporary European History
Spouse	Denise Cripps
Children	1
Academic background
Education	Ysgol Penglais School
Alma mater	Wadham College, Oxford
Thesis	The Rexist movement in Belgium, 1940–1944
Doctoral advisor	Richard Cobb
Academic work
Institutions	Institute of Historical Research Christ Church, Oxford Balliol College, Oxford

Early life

Conway was born and raised in Aberystwyth. He attended Ysgol Penglais School.^[8] He was an only child.^[9] He was an undergraduate and graduate student at Wadham College, Oxford.^[10] His doctoral thesis was supervised by Richard Cobb.^[11]

Career

Conway's post-doctoral career began with a one-year scholarship from the Institute of Historical Research before he was elected to a Junior Research Fellowship at Christ Church, Oxford in 1987. He was subsequently elected to a Tutorial Fellowship in History at Balliol College, Oxford in 1990, succeeding Colin Lucas.^[10] In November 2014 he was awarded the Title of Distinction of Professor of Contemporary European History by the University of Oxford.^[12]

Conway has held multiple roles within Oxford, including Chair of the Board of the Faculty of History and Associate Head of the Humanities Division.^[13] He is also a Visiting Fellow to Princeton University.^[14] He sits on the Academic Advisory Council of Heidelberg University.^[15]

During his career, he has spoken at the National WWI Museum and Memorial,^[16] Princeton University,^[17] and Edge Hill University.^[18]

Affiliations

Conway is on the Journal of Belgian History International Advisory Board.^[19]

Personal life

Conway is married to Denise Cripps, a publisher based in Oxford, and they have a son together, Nick, born in 2000.^[10]

In May 2016, Conway was one of 300 prominent historians, including Simon Schama and Niall Ferguson, who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian, telling voters that if they chose to leave the European Union on 23 June, they would be condemning Britain to irrelevance.^[20][21]

Bibliography

• Collaboration in Belgium: Léon Degrelle and the Rexist movement, 1940–1944 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993)
• Catholic politics in Europe, 1918–1945 (London: Routledge, 1997)
• The sorrows of Belgium: liberation and political reconstruction, 1944–1947 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012)
• Western Europe's democratic age, 1945–1968 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020)