David Dilks

Dilks was born in Foleshill, a suburb of Coventry, and attended The Royal Grammar School Worcester before winning a scholarship to Hertford College, Oxford, to read history.

Dilks remained in Oxford to do research at St Antony's College before becoming research assistant to Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan.^[1] He was the official biographer of the latter as well as producing a two-volume biography of the viceroy of India, George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston,^[2] and an incomplete biography of Neville Chamberlain.^[3]

Dilks was Professor of International History at the University of Leeds from 1970 to 1991.

In 1977 he became a Visiting Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.

Professor Dilks became Vice Chancellor of the University of Hull in 1991, serving until 1999.^[4]

• Sir Winston Churchill. Hamish Hamilton, 1965. (from the "Men and Movements" series)
• Curzon in India. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1969-70. (2 vols.)
• The Diaries of Sir Alexander Cadogan, 1938-1945. Cassell, 1971. (editor)
• The Conservatives: A History from their Origins to 1965. George Allen & Unwin, 1977. (contributor; editor Rab Butler)
• Retreat from Power: Studies in Britain's Foreign Policy of the Twentieth Century. Macmillan, 1981. (2 vols.)
• Neville Chamberlain: Volume 1, 1869-1929. Cambridge University Press, 1984.
• The Missing Dimension: Governments and Intelligence Communities in the Twentieth Century. Macmillan, 1984. (co-editor with Christopher Andrew)
• The Office of Prime Minister in Twentieth-Century Britain. University of Hull Press, 1993.
• Barbarossa: The Axis and the Allies. Edinburgh University Press, 1994. (co-editor with John Erickson)
• Communications, the Commonwealth and the Future. University of Hull Press, 1994.
• The Conference at Potsdam, 1945. University of Hull Press, 1995.
• Epic and Tragedy: Britain and Poland, 1941-1945. University of Hull Press, 1995.
• Rights, Wrongs and Rivalries: Britain and France in 1945. University of Hull Press, 1996.
• de Gaulle and the British. University of Hull Press, 1996.
• Great Britain, the Commonwealth and the Wider World, 1939-45. University of Hull Press, 1998.
• Collective Security, 1919 and Now. University of Hull Press, 1999.
• The Great Dominion: Winston Churchill in Canada 1900-1954. Thomas Allen & Son, 2005.
• Churchill and Company: Allies and Rivals in War and Peace. I.B. Tauris, 2012.