Name Anthony Upton | Died July 4, 2015 | |
Books The Finnish Revolution - 1917‑1918, Europe - 1600‑1789, Charles XI and Swedish, Finland - 1939‑1940, Communism in Scandina | ||
Anthony F. Upton (13 October 1929 – 4 July 2015) was a British professor of Nordic history. Born in Stockton Heath, Cheshire, he graduated B.A. in Modern History from Queen's College, Oxford, with First Class honours in 1951, subsequently M.A. (Oxon). After leaving Oxford he travelled to the United States as a Fulbright Scholar and graduated A.M. in history from Duke University, NC in 1953. On his return from the United States, He was appointed as an Assistant Lecturer in History at the University of Leeds. He moved to the University of St. Andrews in 1956 as a Lecturer in History. He was promoted to Reader before being appointed Professor of Nordic History in 1983. He retired from St Andrews as Professor Emeritus in 1996. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
He has published about the first decades 1918–1944 after Finnish independence. He received the Hon. D. from the University of Helsinki on 2 June 2000.
He is best known for sinking the so-called "Driftwood theory" (Finnish: Ajopuuteoria) of Finnish passivity in the Operation Barbarossa.