David Rubinstein (social historian) explained

Birth Date:7 August 1932
Birth Place:Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
Alma Mater:London School of Economics
Party:Labour
Children:3

David Rubinstein (7 August 1932  - 19 August 2019) was an American-born British social historian and political activist.

Biography

Rubinstein was born of Jewish parentage in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, US. His father Beryl Rubinstein was a musician.

To escape McCarthyism and as inspired by a trip he took around Europe, Rubinstein moved to England in 1952 to pursue a PhD at London School of Economics, where his doctoral thesis was on The decline of the Liberal Party 1880-1900.[1] After graduating, Rubinstein joined the Labour Party, became a naturalised British citizen in 1964, and began teaching social history the University of Hull the following year. He also joined The Ramblers and was a campaigner for Palestinian rights and better transport.

In 1956, Rubinstein married Shirley Livingstone, with whom he had three children. They later divorced, and Rubenstein remarried writer and researcher Ann Holt in 1974. Rubinstein and Holt later became members of the Religious Society of Friends.

After leaving Hull in 1988, Rubinstein, a Francophile, taught at French universities in Tours, Angers, and Boulogne. Back in England, he worked in local government in Tower Hamlets and Maidstone as a council and Labour Party adviser. Rubenstein and Holt retired to York in 1997, where he was an honorary fellow of the University of York. He continued to write about Quakers, York, and the history of the Labour Party. He traveled frequently and refused to own a car, relying solely on public transport and protesting rural service cuts.

He specialized in the 19th and 20th centuries and wrote approximately 20 books.

He died in 2019.[2]

Publications

A selection of Rubinstein's work:

Notes and References

  1. Rubinstein. B. David. 1956. The decline of the Liberal Party 1880 - 1900. PhD. London School of Economics and Political Science. 5 May 2021.
  2. Web site: David Rubinstein obituary . 2019-08-19. The Guardian. Paul. Lawrence. https://web.archive.org/web/20221207042725/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/aug/19/david-rubinstein-obituary . 2022-12-07 . live .
  3. Robson, Ann. "Review of Before the Suffragettes: Women's Emancipation in the 1890s by David Rubinstein." Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies 19.2 (Summer 1987): 280-282.
  4. Reviewed in Freeman, Mark (2004) Clio-biography, Cultural and Social History, Volume 1, Number 3, 1 September 2004, pp. 333-340(8)
  5. Web site: The Labour Party and British Society, 1880–2005 - David Rubinstein . sussex-academic.com . January 4, 2011.

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