David Rubinstein

David Rubinstein (7 August 1932 – 19 August 2019) was an American-born British social historian and political activist.

Biography Rubinstein was born of Jewish parentage in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, US. His father Beryl Rubinstein was a musician.

To escape McCarthyism and as inspired by a trip he took around Europe, Rubinstein moved to England in 1952 to pursue a PhD at London School of Economics, where he completed a doctoral thesis on The decline of the Liberal Party 1880–1900 under the supervision of Richard Greaves. After graduating, Rubinstein joined the Labour Party, became a naturalised British citizen in 1964, and began teaching social history the University of Hull the following year. He also joined The Ramblers and was a campaigner for Palestinian rights and better transport.

Publications A selection of Rubinstein's work: 1969: The Evolution of the Comprehensive School, 1926-1966 (Authored with Brian Simon. London: Routledge) 1969: Leisure Transport and the Countryside (Authored with Colin Speakman. London: Fabian Society) 1969: School Attendance in London, 1870-1904: A Social History (New York: A.M. Kelley) 1970: Education for Democracy (Edited with Colin Stoneman. New York: Penguin) 1972: Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia (Authored with Yrjo O. Alanen) 1972: The Wold's Way 1973: People for the People: Radical Ideas & Personalities in British Social History (London: Ithaca Press) 1974: Victorian Homes (North Pomfret, VT: David & Charles) 1980: Education and Equality 1981: Marx and Wittgenstein: Social Praxis and Social Explanation 1986: Before the Suffragettes: Women's Emancipation in the 1890s (Brighton, Sussex, UK: Harvester) 1991: A Different World for Women: The Life of Millicent Garrett Fawcett (New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf) 1999: But He'll Remember: An Autobiography. William Sessions Limited 1999: York Friends and the Great War (York, UK: Borthwick Institute of Historical Research) 2000: Culture, Structure and Agency: Toward a Truly Multidimensional Sociology 2005: The Labour Party and British Society, 1880–2005 (Brighton, UK: Sussex Academic Press) 2006: An Inquiry into the Philosophical Foundations of the Human Sciences (Authored with Alfred Claassen. San Francisco State University Series in Philosophy) 2009: The Backhouse Quaker Family of York Nurserymen: Including James Backhouse, 1794-1869, Botanist and Quaker Missionary 2009: The Nature of the World: The Yorkshire Philosophical Society, 1822-2000 (York, UK: Quacks)