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Professor of Modern European History, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge
Professor Robert Tombs is Professor of Modern European History in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge. His main area of research has been nineteenth-century French political history, and especially popular political culture. He has been particularly concerned with the Paris Commune of 1871 and with French nationalism from the 1830s to 1914.
He has also worked on the history of the relationship between the French and the British, from the end of the seventeenth century to the present day, including the cultural and economic as well as the political and military spheres.
His most recent book is The English and Their History (2014), but he continues to work and publish on French history and on French attitudes to Britain.
