In 1962, Dickens came to London as professor at King's College, and in 1967 went on to become director of the Institute of Historical Research at the university's Senate House. In 1959, he published the fruits of years of original research into record sources in Lollards And Protestants In The Diocese of York - a book which was acclaimed as giving a new dimension to Reformation studies. During this period he taught for a year at the University of Rochester, New York, spending study periods at the Folger Library.īy now his lifelong dedication to the study of the origins and progress of the English Reformation was firmly established. He moved from Keble in 1949 to become GF Grant professor of history and, from 1959, pro-vice-chancellor at the University of Hull, remaining until 1962.
This empathy endured: Dickens helped to establish the German Historical Institute in London (1968) and received the Merit Order of the German Federal Republic (1980).
War service in the Royal Artillery from 1940-45 as captain in AA Command, brigade intelligence officer and press officer provided the material for his first book, Lübeck Diary (1947), which recorded postwar problems and tensions, and won acclaim within Germany. He was appointed tutorial fellow at Keble College, Oxford, in 1933 in 1936, he married his wife Molly.
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