Caroline Robbins

Caroline Robbins or Caroline Herben (18 August 1903 – 8 February 1999) was a British historian who was a professor at Bryn Mawr College.

Life Robbins was born in Middlesex in 1903. Her parents were Rowland Richard (1872–1960) and Rosa Marion Robbins (nee Harris). Her father was a farmer and he was a Councillor on the Middlesex County Council. Her brother, Lionel, would become an economist. The family were Strict Baptists and she identified with the English Nonconformist tradition. and the work of American intellectual historians such as Bernard Bailyn who drew on Robbins’s concept of the Commonwealthmen to trace the transmission of civic republican ideas into the political culture of the American Revolution.

Works

Two English Republican Tracts. Cambridge University Press, 1969. Barbara Taft: Absolute Liberty: A Selection from the Articles and Papers of Caroline Robbins. Archon Books, Hamden CN 1982.