Robin Darwall-Smith

Robin Haydon Darwall-Smith (born 1963) is a British archivist, based in Oxford and associated with several Oxford University College archives.

Education Robin Darwall-Smith studied classics at University College, Oxford under George Cawkwell as an undergraduate and postgraduate. He then trained as an archivist at the University of Liverpool. While at Oxford, Darwall-Smith represented University College on the television quiz show University Challenge in 1987, reaching the series final.

Career Darwall-Smith initially worked at the Oxfordshire Archives. Subsequently, he has been an archivist for Jesus College, Magdalen College, and University College at Oxford. and of the Royal Historical Society in 2010.

Some of his papers are held by the Archive at University College, Oxford.

Selected books Robin Darwall-Smith has written a number of books, including:

The Jowett papers: A summary catalogue of the papers of Benjamin Jowett (1817–1893) at Balliol College, Oxford. Balliol College Library, 1993. Emperors and Architecture: A Study of Flavian Rome, Peeters. 1996. Account Rolls of University College, Oxford, Vol I (1381–1471), John Wiley & Sons, 1999. Account Rolls of University College, Oxford, Vol II (1472–1597), Oxford Historical Society, 2001. Early Records of University College, Oxford Historical Society, 2015. History of Universities, volume XXXV/1, Oxford University Press, 2022. (edited with Peregrine Horden) Music in Twentieth-Century Oxford: New Directions, Boydell Press, 2023. (edited with Susan Wollenberg)