Christine Elizabeth King,

CBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding valuable service in a wide range of useful activities. It comprises five classes of awards across both civil and military divisions, the most senior two o ...

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, DL is a British historian and

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. She was

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and Chief Executive of

Staffordshire University The University of Staffordshire is a public research university in Staffordshire, England. It has its main campus in Stoke-on-Trent and four other campuses in Stafford, Lichfield, Shrewsbury, and London. History In 1901, industrialist Alfred ...

from 1995 to 2011. King has published extensively on the

Third Reich Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictat ...

and is considered an expert on Nazi Germany. She was formerly head of the School of Historical and Critical Studies and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Lancashire Polytechnic. In 1990 she was appointed Assistant Director of Staffordshire Polytechnic, which became Staffordshire University in 1992.

Honours

King was appointed

Commander of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding valuable service in a wide range of useful activities. It comprises five classes of awards across both civil and military divisions, the most senior two o ...

(CBE) in the 2007 New Year Honours list for services to higher education. She is a Fellow of the

Royal Historical Society The Royal Historical Society (RHS), founded in 1868, is a learned society of the United Kingdom which advances scholarly studies of history. Origins The society was founded and received its royal charter in 1868. Until 1872 it was known as the H ...

and a Deputy Lieutenant for

Staffordshire Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation ''Staffs''.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands of England. It borders Cheshire to the north-west, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, ...

Selected publications

* "Strategies for Survival: An Examination of the History of Five Christian Sects in Germany 1933-45" in ''Journal of Contemporary History'' Vol. 14, No. 2 (April 1979), pp. 211–233 * ''The Nazi state and the new religions: five case studies in non-conformity'', 1982, Edwin Mellen Press () * ''Through the Glass Ceiling: Effective Senior Management Development for Women'', 1993, Tudor Business Publishing ()

References

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