Richard Cobb was a British historian. He became Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford, after an initially unconventional academic career in which he spent a dozen years working as an independent scholar in French archives. His work was recognized in France by the award of membership of the Legion d’Honneur. He is known for his work on the background to the French Revolution, and for his autobiographical writings.
Books in order of publication (In English and French):
Historical works
The People’s Armies (1961; first English edition, 1987)
Terreur et subsistances, 1783–1795 (1965) (in French)
A Second Identity: Essays on France and French History (1969)
The Police and the People: French Popular Protest, 1789–1820 (1970)
Reactions to the French Revolution (1972)
Paris and its Provinces, 1792–1802 (1975)
A Sense of Place (1975)
Raymond Queneau (1976)
Tour De France (1976)
Death in Paris: The Records of the Basse-Geole de la Seine, October 1795 – September 1801 (1978)
The Streets of Paris (1979)
Promenades: A Historian’s Appreciation of Modern French Literature (1980)
French and Germans, Germans and French. A Personal Interpretation of France Under Two Occupations, 1914–1918/1940–1944 (1983)
The French Revolution: Voices From a Momentous Epoch, 1789–1795 (with Colin Jones; 1988)
Autobiographical works
Still Life: Sketches from a Tunbridge Wells Childhood (1983)
People and Places (1985)
A Classical Education (1985)
Something To Hold On To: Autobiographical Sketches (1988)
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