Dr. Tobias Abse is a historian. He was a lecturer in the subject at
Goldsmiths College
Goldsmiths, University of London, officially the Goldsmiths' College, is a constituent research university of the University of London in England. It was originally founded in 1891 as The Goldsmiths' Technical and Recreative Institute by the Wor ...
of the
University of London
The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in post-nominals) is a federal public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The university was established by royal charter in 1836 as a degre ...
from 1994 to 2016. Abse has written extensively on the rise of the Fascist Right in
Italy
Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical ...
prior to
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great power ...
.
[https://books.google.com/books?id=aJvzjv12CkcC&pg=PA40&dq=tobias+abse+about&ei=8-PdR4mwKYywiQH86fnFAQ&sig=HZz3yCpyFkr847HSQVO05FlS6b0 Google books] He has been a member of the
Socialist Alliance National Executive, the Alliance for Green Socialism National Committee, the
Socialist History Society committee and the ''
Revolutionary History'' editorial board and is a regular contributor to UK socialist newspapers and magazines.
Abse is the son of the
Labour MP and social reformer
Leo Abse
Leopold Abse (22 April 1917 – 19 August 2008) was a Welsh lawyer and politician. He was a Welsh Labour MP for nearly 30 years, noted for promoting private member's bills to decriminalise male homosexual relations and liberalise the divorce la ...
(1917–2008). He was educated at
William Ellis School, Highgate, and
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Gonville and Caius College, often referred to simply as Caius ( ), is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1348, it is the fourth-oldest of the University of Cambridge's 31 colleges and one of ...
, where he graduated with a double-starred first-class degree