{{Short description|British historian}} {{Use British English|date=December 2023}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2023}} {{Infobox academic | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRHistS|size=100%}} | occupation = Historian | alma_mater = {{Indented plainlist| * University of Oxford * University of Reading }} | doctoral_advisor = Avi Shlaim | discipline = Modern history | sub_discipline = History of the European Union | workplaces = {{Indented plainlist| * University of Reading * Open University * University of Oxford }} }} '''Anne Deighton''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRHistS}} is a British historian of the European Union. She is a Emeritus Professor of European International Politics at the University of Oxford and an Emeritus Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford.
==Biography== Anne Deighton was educated at the University of Oxford, where she read modern history during a time when the subject's scope "ended decisively in 1939", and the University of Reading, where her doctoral advisor was Avi Shlaim.<ref name="ULB">{{Cite web |title=Doctor Anne DEIGHTON |url=https://fwa.ulb.be/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Chaire1999_Deighton.pdf |access-date=2024-01-01 |website=Fondation Wiener-Anspach}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Deighton |first=Anne |date=1 April 2020 |title=Sorry: Did I Crack A Glass Ceiling? |url=https://issforum.org/essays/PDF/E210.pdf |journal=Essay Series on Learning the Scholar's Craft: Reflections of Historians and International Relations Scholars |publisher=H-Diplo |access-date=2024-01-01}}</ref> She worked at the University of Reading (1987–1991) and the Open University as a lecturer and at St Antony's College, Oxford as a NatWest Senior Research Fellow (1991–1997).<ref name="ULB" /> She later became Reader in European International Politics at Oxford,<ref name="fwa" /> before being promoted to Professor and eventually Emeritus Professor.<ref name="wolfson">{{Cite web |title=Anne Deighton |url=https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/person/anne-deighton |access-date=2024-01-01 |website=Wolfson College, Oxford}}</ref><ref name="politics.ox">{{Cite web |title=Anne Deighton |url=https://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/person/anne-deighton |access-date=2024-01-01 |website=www.politics.ox.ac.uk |date=18 May 2017 |language=en}}</ref>
Deighton became fellow of Wolfson College,<ref name="ULB" /> and she was eventually promoted to emeritus fellow.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Current Fellows |url=https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/current-fellows?first_letter=D |access-date=2024-01-01 |website=Wolfson College, Oxford}}</ref> She was the Wiener – Anspach Foundation's Ganshof van der Meersch Chair (1999–2000), having received the support of political scientist Eric Remacle.<ref name="fwa">{{Cite web |title=Anne Deighton – Why history matters : European integration past and present |url=https://fwa.ulb.be/activites/chaire-ganshof-van-der-meersch/anne-deighton-why-history-matters-european-integration-past-and-present/ |access-date=2024-01-01 |website=Fondation Wiener-Anspach |language=fr-FR}}</ref> She has also served as a Jean Monnet Chair in the history of European integration.<ref name="ULB" />
As an academic, Deighton specialises in the history of the European Union, especially the history of European integration.<ref name="politics.ox"/> In addition to being an editor of several history books on the European Union, she is the author of ''The Impossible Peace: Britain, the Division of Germany and the Origins of the Cold War, 1945-1947'' (1990), which discusses the United Kingdom's role in the star of the Cold War, particularly in post-war Germany.<ref name="politics.ox"/><ref>{{Cite web |title=The Impossible Peace: Britain, the Division of Germany, and the Origins of the Cold War |url=https://academic.oup.com/book/27386 |access-date=2024-01-01 |website=Oxford University Press |language=en}}</ref> From 2009 to 2011, she hosted the Cyril Foster Lectures at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford.<ref name="politics.ox"/>
Deighton is a foreign member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters's History section.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Utenlandske medlemmer |url=https://dnva.no/medlemmer/52 |access-date=2023-12-31 |website=Det Norske Videnskaps-Akademi |language=nb}}</ref> She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.<ref>{{Cite web |title=List of Current Fellows |url=https://files.royalhistsoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/23161452/Fellows-List-Feb-23.pdf |access-date=2024-01-01 |website=Royal Historical Society}}</ref>
==Works== *''Britain and the First Cold War'' (1990, as editor)<ref name="politics.ox"/> *''The Impossible Peace: Britain, the Division of Germany and the Origins of the Cold War, 1945-1947'' (1990)<ref name="politics.ox"/> *''Western European Union, 1954-1997, Defence, Security, Integration'' (1997, as editor)<ref name="politics.ox"/> *''WEU, 1948-1998: From the Treaty of Brussels to the Treaty of Amsterdam'' (1998, as co-editor)<ref name="politics.ox"/> *''Widening, Deepening, Acceleration, the European Economic Community, 1957-1963'' (1999, as co-editor)<ref name="politics.ox"/> *''Building Postwar Europe: National Decision-Makers and European Institutions, 1948-1963'' (2003, as editor)<ref name="politics.ox"/> *''Securing Europe? Implementing the European Security Strategy'' (2006, as editor)<ref name="politics.ox"/> *''The EC/EU: a World Security Actor? 1957-2007'' (2007, as co-editor)<ref name="politics.ox"/>
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