Antony Copley

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Antony RH Copley (born July 1, 1937 in Hertfordshire - † July 18, 2016 ) was a British historian . His research focus was on the European and Indian modern times.

Life

Antony Copley was the son of one of Hertfordshire originating Solicitor and his first wife. He had several half-siblings from his father's second marriage. At a young age he attended Kingshott School, a private preparatory school in Hitchin . He then attended Gresham's School , a public school in Norfolk County . He later received a scholarship for the Worcester College of the University of Oxford , however, decided to only his national service abzuleisten. As a naval officer he was used in Cyprus and during the Suez Crisis . He studied contemporary history at the University of Oxford.

From 1963 to 1967 Copley taught as a lecturer at the University College of North Wales . He then moved to the University of Kent at Canterbury . There he taught as a senior lecturer and reader . In 2002 he retired. He later became an honorary professor at the University of Kent.

Copley has been a visiting academic at Jawaharlal Nehru University in India , Ibadan University in Nigeria and Nankai University in China . He was also visiting professor at Sri Venkateswara University , Central University in Hyderabad , University of Bangalore and University of Paris.

His academic interest was above all in modern European history, with a particular focus on 19th century French history and the history of India. In 2015 he published his autobiography A Memoir: Historian and Homosexual: Search for a Postwar Identity .

Copley died of prostate cancer in 2016 .

Publications (selection)

  • Sexual Moralities in France, 1780–1980: New Ideas on the Family, Divorce, and Homosexuality (1989)
  • Gandhi: Against the Tide (1993)
  • (Ed.): Hinduism in Public and Private: Reform, Hindutva, Gender, and Sampraday (2003, Oxford University Press)
  • A Spiritual Bloomsbury: Hinduism and Homosexuality in the lives and writings of Edward Carpenter, EM Forster and Christopher Isherwood (2006)
  • Music and the Spiritual: Composers and Politics in the 20th Century (2012)
  • A Memoir: Historian and Homosexual: Search for a Postwar Identity (2015)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Antony Copley: A Spiritual Bloomsbury: Hinduism and Homosexuality in the lives and writings of Edward Carpenter, EM Forster and Christopher Isherwood (2006)
personal data
SURNAME Copley, Antony
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Copley, Antony RH
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Hertfordshire
DATE OF DEATH 18th July 2016