Professor Arthur Geoffrey Dickens papers

Arthur Dickens was born in 1910, and educated at Hymers College, Hull and Magdalene College, Oxford, where he gained a degree in history. Following graduation, he became a Fellow and Tutor at Keble College (1933-1949) and an Oxford University Lecturer in sixteenth century English History (1939-1949), with a break for service in the Royal Artillery during World War Two. In 1949, Dickens was appointed Professor of History at the University of Hull, later becoming Deputy Principal and Dean of the Faculty of Arts, 1950-1953, and Pro-Vice-Chancellor, 1959-1962. He took up the post of Professor of History at King's College London in 1962, where he remained until becoming Director of the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) and Professor of History in the University of London, 1967-1977. Dickens was also active in other bodies, including President of the Ecclesiastical History Society, 1966-1968; a member of the Advisory Council on Public Records, 1968-1976; an advisor to the Council on the Export of Works of Art, 1968-1976; Secretary, Chairman and General Secretary of the British National Committee of Historical Sciences, 1967-1979; Foreign Secretary of the British Academy, 1969-1979; and Vice-President of the British Record Society, 1978-1980; Dickens enjoyed "a deep love affair with Germany" [Patrick Collinson, Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research 77, p21], was a moving force in the establishment of the German Historical Institute in London and was decorated by the German government. His major publications include Lollards and Protestants in the Diocese of York, 1509-58 (1959); The English Reformation (1964); and The German Nation and Martin Luther (1974). Professor Dickens died in 2001. Publications: Dickens’ publications include: Age of humanism and reformation (1972) Contemporary historians of the German Reformation (1978) The Counter Reformation (1968) The East Riding of Yorkshire with Hull and York (1954) The English Reformation (1964) Erasmus the Reformer (1994) co-author with Whitney R.D. Jones Fourteen poems, 1930-1945 (1945) The German nation and Martin Luther (1974) Late Monasticism and the Reformation (1993) Lollards and Protestants in the Diocese of York, 1509-1558 (1959) Lübeck diary (1947) The Marian reaction in the Diocese of York (1957) Martin Luther and the Reformation (1967) Reformation and society in sixteenth-century Europe (1966) The Reformation in historical thought (1985) co-author with John Tonkin and Kenneth Powell Thomas Cromwell and the English Reformation (1959).