Departmental homepageProfessor Robert Tombs read History at Cambridge, and was elected into a Research Fellowship at St John's. Most of his career was spent in teaching French and European history in the Faculty of History, from undergraduate to doctoral level. In College he has held the positions of Director of Studies and Tutor.
During the first part of his career, he carried out research and wrote on 19th- and 20th-century France. Latterly, he has published on Anglo-French relations and English history, and is presently working on the Union between England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
The English and Their History (London, Penguin, new ed. 2023)
That Sweet Enemy: The French and the British from the Sun King to the Present (London, New York, Paris, 2006), with Isabelle Tombs
Paris, bivouac des révolutions (Paris, Libertalia, 2014)
France, 1814-1914 (Longman, Harlow, 1996)
