Paul Martin Hayes FRHS (12 February 1942 – 30 October 1995) was an English historian and academic, a fellow and tutor of Keble College, Oxford.
His field of study was the 20th century, with a focus on fascism.
Early life
editHayes was educated at St John's College, Oxford, where in 1963 he took his first degree in Modern History, and then at Nuffield College, where he completed a doctorate, and also at the Universities of Dijon, Marburg, Lausanne, and Oslo.[1]
Career
editIn 1965, Hayes was elected as a fellow and tutor at Keble College, Oxford,[1] where he remained until shortly before his death, and was also a University Lecturer in Modern History.[2] At Keble, he was an enthusiast for college cricket, and was instrumental in securing the admission of Imran Khan, after he had been turned down by Cambridge.[3]
Hayes was Junior Proctor of the University for the year 1980–1981, with responsibility for enforcing University discipline and sanctions and for the conduct of public examinations.[4] In the 1980s, he was Tutor for Admissions at Keble.[5]
In 1991, as Senior Tutor of Keble, Hayes was involved in a dispute over Phil Weston, a cricketer who had been expected to join the college but did not do so after being refused permission to absent himself for much of his first term on a cricket tour of Pakistan. Hayes was accused of intransigence by Peter Roebuck, writing in The Times, but he made a firm reply, and others defended him.[6]
Interviewed in 2005, one of Hayes’s pupils, the Conservative politician Philip Dunne, said that he had taken no part in student politics at Oxford but Hayes and Larry Siedentop had influenced him by drawing international political themes to his attention.[7]
Personal life
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On 3 February 1981, at Oxford, Hayes married Ursel Kiehne. They had one son[2][8] and one daughter, born in 1991.[9]
Hayes died on 30 October 1995,[10] after a long illness,[11] and a memorial service was held in the Keble College chapel on 20 January 1996.[12]
Publications
edit- "Quisling's Political Ideas", in Journal of Contemporary History (January, 1966)
- Quisling. The Career and Political Ideas of Vidkun Quisling 1887-1945 (David & Charles, 1971)[13]
- Fascism (London: Allen & Unwin, 1973, ISBN 9780043200896)
- "Britain, Germany, and the Admiralty's Plans for Attacking German Territory", in Lawrence Freedman, Paul Hayes, and Robert O'Neill (eds.), War, Strategy, and International Politics: Essays in Honour of Sir Michael Howard (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992)
- Themes in Modern European History 1890–1945 (Routledge, 1992, ISBN 9780203185131)
Honours
editHayes was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society[10]
Notes
edit- ^ a b R. F. Holland, G. Rizvi, Perspectives on Imperialism and Decolonization: Essays in Honour of A.F. Madden (Routledge, 1984), p. 306
- ^ a b Ernest Kay, ed., The International Authors and Writers Who's Who (1986), p. 265
- ^ Ivo Tennant, "Excellence exhausted", espncricinfo.com, 4 September 2008
- ^ David Robertson, "Memorial Address for Miss Cooper", in St Hugh’s College Chronicle 1998-99, p. 17
- ^ Lincoln Allison, "Campus sport is about more than winning or losing", timeshighereducation.com, 24 Mar 2016, accessed 11 December 2021
- ^ Peter Roebuck, "Feeble Keble disgraced by Weston snub", The Times, 12 October 1991; "Letters to the Editor", The Times, 19 October 1991, p. 17
- ^ Alex Keenan, Richard Bliault, "THE BRICK INTERVIEW: KEBLE TRIUMVIRATE OF MPS", The Brick, Issue 34, Trinity Term 2005, p. 3
- ^ "Ursel Kiehne" in England & Wales, Civil Registration Marriage Index, 1916-2005, ancestry.com, accessed 10 December 2021
- ^ "HAYES Susanna Christina/ KIEHNE" in England & Wales, Civil Registration Births Index, 1916-2005, ancestry.com, accessed 31 January 2022
- ^ a b "PAUL MARTIN HAYES, MA, D.PHIL., F.R.HIST.S." (obituary) in Oxford University Gazette, 30 November 1995
- ^ Oxford University Gazette, 21 March 1996
- ^ "Memorial Services" in Oxford University Gazette, 30 November 1995
- ^ British Book News (1971), p. 1005