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Sir Martin John Gilbert CBE FRSL (25 October 1936 – 3 February 2015) [1] [2] was a British historian and honorary Fellow of Merton College, Oxford.He was the author of 88 books, including works on Winston Churchill, the 20th century, and Jewish history including the Holocaust.
Fori Nehru met Martin Gilbert in 1958. [2] He was a friend of her son Ashok, from university days, and later historian and official biographer of Winston Churchill. [2] When Gilbert arrived at the Nehru home that year he was unwell, and he later recounted that she successfully nursed him to recovery with rice and yoghurt. [2]
The Churchill family controls many of the documents and has authorized an 8-volume official biography. It was started by his son Randolph Churchill (1911–1968) and finished after his death by Martin Gilbert (1936–2015), a scholar at Oxford. It included "Companion volumes" filled with original sources.
The film follows Stephanie Nyombayire, a young activist from Rwanda who lost 100 family members in the Rwandan Genocide, and Sir Martin Gilbert, a prominent historian specializing in the 20th century and the Holocaust, as they travel through 15 countries and three continents to interview survivors and descendants of the diplomats. Nyombayire ...
An important step in Taylor's "rehabilitation" was a festschrift organised in his honour by Martin Gilbert in 1965. He was honoured with two more festschriften , in 1976 and 1986. The festschriften were testaments to his popularity with his former students as receiving even a single festschrift is considered to be an extraordinary and rare honour.
Martin Gilbert is the name of: Sir Martin Gilbert (1936–2015), British historian; Martin Gilbert (businessman) (born 1955), British businessman;
Martin James Gilbert FRSE (born 13 July 1955) is a British businessman, and the vice chairman of Standard Life Aberdeen and chairman of Aberdeen Standard Investments. He was chief executive (CEO) of Aberdeen Asset Management , an international investment management company, which he co-founded in 1983. [ 1 ]
Andrew Roberts, Baron Roberts of Belgravia, FRSL FRHistS [2] (born 13 January 1963), [3] is an English popular historian, journalist and member of the House of Lords. [4] He is the Roger and Martha Mertz Visiting Research Fellow in the Hoover Institution in Stanford University and a Lehrman Institute Distinguished Lecturer in the New York Historical Society.