David Kirby (historian) explained

David G. Kirby is a former professor of Modern European History at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies in London, which is today part of University College London.

Selected bibliography

• Finland in the Twentieth Century (1979)
• Northern Europe in the Early Modern Period (1990)
• The Baltic World 1772–1993 (1995)
• The Baltic and the North Seas, with Merja-Liisa Hinkkanen (2000)
• A Concise History of Finland (2006)

Lectures

• "European Integration and the Baltic Region: A Historical Perspective." (May 28–29, 1998. See https://web.archive.org/web/20110217103250/http://depts.washington.edu/baltic/newsletter/spring98.html#kirby)

Contributor

• Baltic Worlds, http://balticworlds.com/contributors/david-kirby/