DUNTHORN, David J. 1943-

PERSONAL: Born May 5, 1943, in Wickham, Hampshire, England; son of Ivor Raymond (a naval officer) and Betty Claudia Dunthorn; married Mary Ann Horton (a teacher and administrator), December 18, 1965; children: Emma Mary, Martha Elizabeth, Hannah Rachel. Ethnicity: "English." Education: Clare College, Cambridge, B.A. (with honors), 1964; University of Bristol, postgraduate certificate of education, 1965; Cambridge University, M.A., 1968; Bristol Polytechnic, M.A. (with distinction), 1984; University of the West of England, Ph.D., 2000. Religion: Roman Catholic. Hobbies and other interests: Travel, gardening, prison work, family activities, amateur dramatics.

ADDRESSES: Home—16 Rendcomb Dr., Cirencester, Gloucestershire GL7 1YN, England. Offıce—History School, University of the West of England, Oldbury Court Rd., Fishponds, Bristol BS16 2JP, England.

CAREER: Teacher of French and Spanish at school in London, England, 1965-66; St. Gregory's College, Lagos, Nigeria, head of French department, 1967-70; head of languages at school in Bristol, England, 1970-76; head of sixth form at school in Bristol, 1976-77; Castle School, Thornbury, England, teacher and head of languages, 1977-93, acting deputy head teacher, 1988-91, senior teacher, 1989-93; University of the West of England, Bristol, visiting lecturer in modern European history, 1993—. Her Majesty's Prison, Eastwood Park, member of board of visitors, 1991—, board chair, 1999-2001.

MEMBER: Cambridge Society.

WRITINGS:

Heredity and Environment, Blandford Social Press, 1974.

(Editor, with Christian Leitz) Spain in an InternationalContext, 1936-1959, Berghahn (New York, NY), 1999.

Britain and the Spanish Anti-Franco Opposition, 1940-1950, Palgrave (New York, NY), 2000.

Contributor to periodicals, including European History Quarterly and Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions.

WORK IN PROGRESS: The "Tangier Question," 1945; research on Britain, Spain, and North Africa in the period after World War II.

SIDELIGHTS: David J. Dunthorn told CA: "From two much-traveled parents—my father was a career officer in the Royal Navy and my mother was born and brought up in southern Africa—I have inherited a fascination with all that is 'foreign' to Britain. From an early age I realized, too, that mastery of some of its languages was a key to this foreign world. Hence my decision to read for a modern languages degree at Cambridge University in 1961 and my subsequent twenty-nine-year career as a schoolteacher of French, Spanish, and German, initially in West Africa and then in England. From this love of languages—I have since added several others to my list—sprang an inevitable interest in the history of the peoples who speak them. Hence my decision in 1981 to take an M.A. course in historical studies at what was then Bristol Polytechnic and a career change at the age of fifty, when I moved from secondary teaching to part-time lecturing in European history at the University of the West of England in Bristol. Combining my linguistic and historical skills, I completed a doctoral thesis on an aspect of Franco's Spain and was awarded a degree from the University of the West of England in 2000. This thesis was the basis for a book, published by Palgrave, on Britain and the anti-Franco opposition, 1940-1950. My research interests are at present focused on the western Mediterranean in the early post-World War II period, with particular reference to Spain, which will inspire further writing!"

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

periodicals

Choice, September, 2001, M. Swartz, review of Britain and the Spanish Anti-Franco Opposition, 1940-1950, p. 179.

International History Review, December, 2000, Denis Smyth, review of Spain in an International Context, 1936-1959, p. 958.

Times Literary Supplement, February 16, 2001, Richard Thurlow, review of Britain and the Spanish Anti-Franco Opposition, 1940-1950, p. 32.