Editing Martin Gilbert

{{Short description|British historian (1936–2015)}}
{{Other people}}
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{{Infobox person
| honorific_prefix   = [[The Right Honourable]]
| name               = Sir Martin Gilbert
| honorific_suffix   = {{postnominals|country=GBR|CBE|FRSL|size=100%}}
| image              = MartinGilbertBGUHonDoctor_crop.jpg
| caption            = Gilbert being awarded an honorary doctorate at [[Ben-Gurion University of the Negev]] in Beersheba, Israel, 2011
| birth_name         = Martin John Gilbert
| birth_date         = {{birth date|df=y|1936|10|25}}
| birth_place        = London, United Kingdom
| death_date         = {{death date and age|df=y|2015|2|3|1936|10|25}}
| death_place        = London, United Kingdom
| education          = [[Highgate School]]
| alma_mater         = [[Magdalen College, Oxford]]<br />[[St Antony's College, Oxford]]
| occupation         = Historian, author
| known_for          = [[Winston Churchill]]'s official biography<br />Twentieth century history<br />[[Jewish history]]
}}

'''Sir Martin John Gilbert''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|CBE|FRSL}} (25 October 1936 – 3 February 2015)<ref name="Martin Gilbert, author's message">{{Citation | url = http://www.martingilbert.com/author_message.html | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | title = Author's message | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090522124448/http://www.martingilbert.com/author_message.html | archive-date = 22 May 2009 | df = dmy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=Obituaries |journal=University of Oxford Gazette |volume=145 |issue=5087 |date=19 February 2015 |page=379}}</ref> was a British historian and honorary Fellow of [[Merton College, Oxford]]. He was the author of 88 books, including works on [[Winston Churchill]], the 20th century, and [[Jewish history]] including [[the Holocaust]].
He was a member of the [[Chilcot Inquiry]] into Britain's role in the [[Iraq War]].

==Early life and education==
Martin Gilbert was born in London, the first child of Peter Gilbert, a north London jeweller, and his wife, Miriam. The original family name was Goldberg.<ref name=GM>{{Cite news|author= Stoffmann, Judy|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/churchill-biographer-sir-martin-gilbert-immersed-himself-in-history/article23138744/|title= Obituary: Churchill biographer Sir Martin Gilbert immersed himself in history]|work = [[The Globe and Mail]]|date= 20 February 2015|access-date= 11 August 2020}}</ref><ref name="autogenerated1">The Papers of Sir Martin Gilbert, Churchill Archives Centre,https://archivesearch.lib.cam.ac.uk/repositories/9/resources/1585</ref> All four of his grandparents had been born in the [[Pale of Settlement]] in [[Russian Empire|Tsarist Russia]] (today's Poland and Lithuania).<ref name=GM/><ref name="Telegraph">{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11389474/Sir-Martin-Gilbert-historian-obituary.html |title=Sir Martin Gilbert, historian – obituary |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170918054606/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11389474/Sir-Martin-Gilbert-historian-obituary.html |archive-date=18 September 2017 |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=4 February 2015}}</ref><ref name= kosharovsky/> Nine months after the outbreak of the [[Second World War]], he was evacuated to Canada as part of the [[Evacuations of civilians in Britain during World War II|British efforts to safeguard children]]. Vivid memories of the [[transatlantic crossing]] from [[Liverpool]] to [[Quebec]] sparked his curiosity about the war in later years.<ref name="Martin Gilbert, author's message"/>

After the war, Gilbert attended [[Highgate School]], where he was taught history by the [[Balkans|Balkan]] expert [[Alan Palmer]], and politics by T. N. Fox.<ref name="Telegraph"/> He described himself as being interested in "Jewish things" from a young age, noting that at school he "once or twice got in trouble for my Zionistic activities."<ref name= kosharovsky>{{Cite web|url=http://kosharovsky.com/interview-with-martin-gilbert/|title=Interview with Martin GilbertYuli Kosharovsky|website=kosharovsky.com|access-date=23 October 2019}}</ref> He then completed two years of [[National Service]] in the Intelligence Corps before going on to study at [[Magdalen College, Oxford|Magdalen College]] at the [[University of Oxford]].  Gilbert graduated in 1960 with a Bachelor of Arts degree with [[British undergraduate degree classification|first-class honours]] in modern history.<ref name=autogenerated1 /> One of his tutors at Oxford was [[A. J. P. Taylor]]. After his graduation, Gilbert undertook postgraduate research at [[St Antony's College, Oxford]].

==Career==

===Historian and author===

{{Further|Bibliography of Winston Churchill#Official biographies by Randolph Churchill and Martin Gilbert}}

After two years of postgraduate work, Gilbert was approached by [[Randolph Churchill]] to assist his work on a biography of his father, [[Winston Churchill|Sir Winston Churchill]]. That same year, 1962, Gilbert was made a [[Research fellow|Fellow]] of [[Merton College, Oxford]], and became a part of a circle of academics that included [[C.S. Lewis]] and [[J.R.R. Tolkien]].  He spent the next few years combining his own research projects in Oxford with being part of Randolph's research team in [[Suffolk]], who were working on the first two volumes of the Churchill biography. When Randolph died in 1968, Gilbert was commissioned to take over the task, completing the remaining six main volumes of the biography.<ref name=Gott>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/04/sir-martin-gilbert|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150205222338/http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/04/sir-martin-gilbert|url-status=dead|title=Sir Martin Gilbert obituary|first=Richard|last=Gott|date=4 February 2015|archive-date=5 February 2015|access-date=23 October 2019|work=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref>

Gilbert spent the next 20 years on the Churchill project, publishing a number of other books throughout the time. Each main volume of the biography is accompanied by two or three volumes of documents initially called Companions, and so the biography currently runs to 28 volumes (over 30,000 pages), with another 3 document volumes still planned. [[Michael Foot]], reviewing a volume of Gilbert's biography of Churchill in the ''[[New Statesman]]'' in 1971, praised his meticulous scholarship and wrote: "Whoever made the decision to make Martin Gilbert Churchill's biographer deserves a vote of thanks from the nation. Nothing less would suffice."<ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-02-04 |title=Sir Martin Gilbert, historian - obituary |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11389474/Sir-Martin-Gilbert-historian-obituary.html |access-date=2025-03-16 |website=The Telegraph |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=Winston S.Churchill, Volume III - Sir Martin Gilbert |url=https://www.martingilbert.com/book/winston-s-churchill-volume-iii-the-challenge-of-war-1914-1916/ |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20241220193834/https://www.martingilbert.com/book/winston-s-churchill-volume-iii-the-challenge-of-war-1914-1916/ |archive-date=2024-12-20 |access-date=2025-03-16 |work=Sir Martin Gilbert |language=en-US}}</ref>

In the 1960s, Gilbert compiled a number of historical [[atlases]]. His other major works include a single-volume history on [[the Holocaust]], as well as the single-volume histories ''First World War'' and ''Second World War''. He also wrote a three-volume series called ''A History of the Twentieth Century''. Gilbert described himself as an "archival historian" who made extensive use of [[primary sources]] in his work.<ref name=Gott/> Interviewed by the [[BBC]] on the subject of Holocaust research in 2005, Gilbert said he believed that the "tireless gathering of facts will ultimately consign Holocaust deniers to history."<ref>{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4436275.stm | work=[[BBC News]] | title=The fight against Holocaust denial | date=14 April 2005 | access-date=12 May 2010 | first=Raffi | last=Berg | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100420195922/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4436275.stm | archive-date=20 April 2010 | df=dmy-all }}</ref>

By the 1980s Gilbert's academic attention had also turned towards the [[Refusenik]] movement in the [[Soviet Union]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://kosharovsky.com/interview-with-martin-gilbert/ | title=Interview with Martin Gilbert by Yuli Kosharovsky, June 14, 2005 | access-date=22 November 2015 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151123041445/http://kosharovsky.com/interview-with-martin-gilbert/ | archive-date=23 November 2015 | df=dmy-all }}</ref> Gilbert authored ''Jews of Hope: The Plight of Soviet Jewry Today'' (1984) and ''Shcharansky: Hero of Our Time'' (1986), and he presented on behalf of the [[Soviet Jewry Movement]] in a variety of contexts, ranging from large forums such as formal representation before the [[United Nations Commission on Human Rights]]<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.jpost.com/Jerusalem-Report/Big-Chill-Remembered | title=Big Chill Remembered | work=The Jerusalem Report | date=3 March 2008 | access-date=22 November 2015 | author=Gross, Netty C. | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151123042613/http://www.jpost.com/Jerusalem-Report/Big-Chill-Remembered | archive-date=23 November 2015 | df=dmy-all }}</ref> to smaller forums such as an educational slideshow for the general public on behalf of the Soviet Jewry Information Centre.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdnxShOhCvw | title="A Children's Tale," slide show and presentation | publisher=Soviet Jewry Information Centre |year=1984 | access-date=22 November 2015 | author=Gilbert, Martin | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160704231300/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdnxShOhCvw | archive-date=4 July 2016 | df=dmy-all }}</ref>

In 1995, Gilbert retired as a Fellow of Merton College but was made an Honorary Fellow. In 1999<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.merton.ox.ac.uk/news/sir-martin-gilbert-1936-2015 |title=Sir Martin Gilbert 1936–2015 |publisher=University of Oxford |date=February 2015 |access-date=9 April 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170413190933/https://www.merton.ox.ac.uk/news/sir-martin-gilbert-1936-2015 |archive-date=13 April 2017  }}</ref> he was awarded a [[Doctor of Letters]] [[Degrees of the University of Oxford|degree]] by the University of Oxford "for the totality of his published work".<ref>{{cite journal|title=Leave to supplicate for D.Litt.|journal=Oxford University Gazette|date=24 September 1998|url=http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/1998-9/weekly/240998/exam.htm#507Ref|access-date=4 May 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924082937/http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/1998-9/weekly/240998/exam.htm#507Ref|archive-date=24 September 2015}}</ref> {{citation needed span|date=December 2018|text=In 2000 he received the Guardian of Zion Award from the Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies at Bar-Ilan University. From 2002, he was a Distinguished Fellow of [[Hillsdale College]], [[Michigan]], and between 2006 and 2007 he was a Professor in the History department at the [[University of Western Ontario]]. In October 2008, he was elected to an Honorary Fellowship at [[Churchill College, Cambridge|Churchill College]].}}

Gilbert was noted for his endorsement of [[Bat Ye'or]] and her [[Eurabia]] theory, providing a cover comment for her 2005 book,<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263485050|title=Eurabia Comes to Norway|page=19|journal=Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations|date=July 2013|doi=10.1080/09596410.2013.783969|first=Sindre|last=Bangstad|volume=24 |issue=3 |s2cid=145132618 }}</ref> and has stated that the theory "is 100 percent accurate".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://jpost.com/arts-and-culture/books/one-on-one-with-sir-martin-gilbert-hindsight-and-aforethought|title=One on One with Sir Martin Gilbert: Hindsight and aforethought|date=22 February 2007|work=The Jerusalem Post}}</ref> One of Gilbert's last books, ''In Ishmael's House: A History of the Jews in Muslim Lands'' cited Ye'or with approval several times.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/in-the-house-of-ishmael-a-history-of-the-jews-in-muslim-land-by-martin-gilbert-2149550.html|title=In The House Of Ishmael: A history Of The Jews In Muslim Land, By Martin Gilbert|date=3 December 2010|work=The Independent}}</ref>
===Public service===
Gilbert was appointed in June 2009 as a member of the British government's [[Iraq inquiry|inquiry into the Iraq War]] (headed by [[John Chilcot|Sir John Chilcot]]). His appointment to this inquiry was criticised in parliament by [[William Hague]], [[Clare Short]], and [[George Galloway]] on the basis of scepticism over his neutrality, Gilbert having written in 2004 that [[George W. Bush]] and [[Tony Blair]] may in the future be esteemed to the same degree as Churchill and [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Parliamentary Debates |work=c 808 |date=24 June 2009 |url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200809/cmhansrd/chan98.pdf |access-date=29 July 2009 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090625154906/http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200809/cmhansrd/chan98.pdf |archive-date=25 June 2009  }}</ref><ref>Martin Gilbert [http://observer.theguardian.com/comment/story/0,,1379819,00.html "Statesmen for these times"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150204151745/http://observer.theguardian.com/comment/story/0,,1379819,00.html |date=4 February 2015}}, ''[[The Observer]]'', 26 December 2004, originally published by ''[[Newsweek]]''</ref> In an article for ''[[The Independent on Sunday]]'' published in November 2009, [[Oliver Miles]], the former British ambassador to [[Libya]], objected to the presence of Gilbert and [[Lawrence Freedman|Sir Lawrence Freedman]] on the committee partly because of their Jewish background and Gilbert's [[Zionist]] sympathies.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/oliver-miles-the-key-question-ndash-is-blair-a-war-criminal-1825374.html|title=The key question – is Blair a war criminal?|access-date=12 March 2021|work=[[The Independent on Sunday]] |author-link=Oliver Miles|author= Miles, Oliver|location=London|date=22 November 2009 |url-status=live| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100114060524/https://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/oliver-miles-the-key-question-ndash-is-blair-a-war-criminal-1825374.html|archive-date=14 January 2010}}</ref> In a later interview, Gilbert saw Miles's attack as being motivated by [[antisemitism]].<ref>{{cite news |author= Cesarani, David |author-link= David Cesarani |title=Britain's affair with antisemitism |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/jan/29/chilcot-inquiry-oliver-miles |access-date=25 March 2010 |work=[[The Guardian]] |location=London |date=29 January 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130909072730/http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/jan/29/chilcot-inquiry-oliver-miles |archive-date=9 September 2013  }}</ref>

==Reception==
Many laud Gilbert's books and atlases for their meticulous scholarship and his clear and objective presentation of complex events.<ref>{{Citation | url = http://www.martingilbert.com/reviews.asp?id=23 | title = Book Reviews: Oxford Mail, Library Journal, Middle East Review, Booklist Chicago, British Book News, Society of University Cartographers Bulletin, The Diplomatist, Jewish Chronicle, Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph, Glasgow Jewish Echo, Geographical Magazine | publisher = Martin Gilbert | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100406035234/http://www.martingilbert.com/reviews.asp?id=23 | archive-date = 6 April 2010 | df = dmy-all }}</ref> His book on World War I was described as a majestic, single-volume work incorporating all major fronts—domestic, diplomatic, military—for "a stunning achievement of research and storytelling."<ref>{{Citation | url = http://www.librarything.com/work/13846/descriptions | title = Library thing | contribution = Descriptions | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110519182455/http://www.librarything.com/work/13846/descriptions | archive-date = 19 May 2011 | df = dmy-all }}</ref> [[Catholic]] sources describe him as a "fair-minded, conscientious collector of facts."<ref>{{Citation | url = http://catholicexchange.com/sir-martin-gilbert-a-rare-kind-of-historian | title = A Rare Kind of Historian | newspaper = Catholic exchange | date = 1 February 2008 | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130414073713/http://catholicexchange.com/sir-martin-gilbert-a-rare-kind-of-historian | archive-date = 14 April 2013 | df = dmy-all }}</ref>

Gilbert's portrayal of Churchill's supportive attitudes to Jews (in his book ''Churchill and the Jews'') has been criticised, for example, by [[Piers Brendon]]<ref>{{Citation | title = Churchill & the Jews, by Martin Gilbert |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110103031251/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/churchill-and-the-jews-by-martin-gilbert-456952.html|archive-date=3 January 2011| url = https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/churchill-and-the-jews-by-martin-gilbert-456952.html | newspaper = The Independent | type = review | url-status = dead | place = London}}</ref> and Michael J. Cohen.<ref>{{Cite news|date=2017-01-27|last=Cohen|first=Michael J.|title=The Truth About Churchill and the Jews|language=en|work=Haaretz|url=https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-the-truth-about-churchill-and-the-jews-1.5491166|access-date=2020-05-03}}</ref> Furthermore, [[Tom Segev]] writes that although Gilbert's book ''The Story of Israel'' is written with "encyclopaedic clarity," it suffers from the absence of figures from Arab sources.<ref>{{Citation | url = http://www.haaretz.com/sir-martin-s-coffee-table-book-1.251308 | title = Sir Martin's coffee-table book | newspaper = Ha’aretz | place = [[Israel|IL]] | date = 7 August 2008 | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131118135212/http://www.haaretz.com/sir-martin-s-coffee-table-book-1.251308 | archive-date = 18 November 2013 | df = dmy-all }}</ref>

==Honours and awards==
In 1990, Gilbert was made a Commander of the [[Order of the British Empire]] (CBE). In 1995, he was awarded a [[knight bachelor|knighthood]] "for services to British history and international relations".<ref>{{London Gazette
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==Honorary degrees==
Gilbert received honorary degrees from several universities. These include:<ref name="martingilbert.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.martingilbert.com/education-and-honours/|title=Awards & Honours – Sir Martin Gilbert|website=martingilbert.com|access-date=4 May 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180414093409/http://www.martingilbert.com/education-and-honours/|archive-date=14 April 2018}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"
! style="width:20%;"| Location
! style="width:20%;"| Date
! style="width:40%;"| School
! style="width:20%;"| Degree
|-
| {{Flagu|Missouri}} || '''1981''' || [[Westminster College (Missouri)|Westminster College]] || [[Doctor of Letters]] (D.Litt.)
|-
| {{Flagu|Israel}} || '''1989''' || [[Bar-Ilan University]] || Doctorate<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www1.biu.ac.il/en-about_doctorate|title=Honorary Doctorate Recipients – Bar Ilan University|website=www1.biu.ac.il|access-date=4 May 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170524133245/http://www1.biu.ac.il/en-about_doctorate|archive-date=24 May 2017}}</ref>
|-
| {{Flagu|Ohio}} || '''1992''' || [[Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion|Hebrew Union College]] || Doctorate
|-
| {{Flagu|England}} || '''1992''' || [[University of Buckingham]] || Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.buckingham.ac.uk/graduation/honorary-graduates/1978-2000 |title=Honorary Graduates 1978 – 2000 &#124; University of Buckingham |access-date=14 April 2018 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170706090214/https://www.buckingham.ac.uk/graduation/honorary-graduates-1978-2000 |archive-date=6 July 2017  }}</ref>
|-
| {{Flagu|England}} || '''1999''' || [[University of Oxford]] || Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.) 
|-
| {{Flagu|District of Columbia}} || '''2000''' || [[George Washington University]] || Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://provost.gwu.edu/honorary-degree-recipients|title=Honorary Degree Recipients – Office of the Provost – The George Washington University|website=provost.gwu.edu|access-date=4 May 2018|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180215023339/https://provost.gwu.edu/honorary-degree-recipients|archive-date=15 February 2018}}</ref>
|-
| {{Flagu|Pennsylvania}} || '''2000''' || [[Gratz College]] || Doctorate
|-
| {{Flagu|New Jersey}} || '''2002''' || [[Seton Hall University]] || Doctorate
|-
| {{Flagu|Ontario}} || '''4 June 2003''' || [[University of Western Ontario]] || [[Doctor of Laws]] (LL.D)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://uwo.ca/univsec/pdf/senate/honorary/honorary_degrees_by_year.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=1 June 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305142315/http://uwo.ca/univsec/pdf/senate/honorary/honorary_degrees_by_year.pdf |archive-date=5 March 2016  }}</ref>
|-
| {{Flagu|England}} || '''2004''' || [[University of Leicester]] || [[Doctor of Letters]] (D.Litt.)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www2.le.ac.uk/institution/graduation/previous/honorary-graduates|title=Honorary Graduates – University of Leicester|last=vjh10|publisher=University of Leicester|access-date=4 May 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180414091828/https://www2.le.ac.uk/institution/graduation/previous/honorary-graduates|archive-date=14 April 2018}}</ref>
|-
| {{Flagu|Israel}} || '''2004''' || [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]] || Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www3.huji.ac.il/htbin/hon_doc/doc_search.pl?search|title=Honorary Doctorates – The Hebrew University of Jerusalem|website=www3.huji.ac.il|access-date=4 May 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130211011412/http://www3.huji.ac.il/htbin/hon_doc/doc_search.pl?search|archive-date=11 February 2013}}</ref>
|-
| {{Flagu|Israel}} || '''2011''' || [[Ben-Gurion University of the Negev]] ||   Doctorate
|}
{{Incomplete list|date=April 2018}}

==Fellowships==
Gilbert was a Fellow of the following  institutions:<ref name="martingilbert.com"/>
{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%;"
! style="width:20%;"| Location
! style="width:20%;"| Date
! style="width:40%;"| Institution
! style="width:20%;"| Appointment
|-
| {{Flagu|United Kingdom}} || '''1977''' || [[Royal Society of Literature]] || [[Honorary title (academic)|Fellowship]] (FRSL)<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://rsliterature.org/fellow/sir-martin-gilbert-3/ | title=Royal Society of Literature " Sir Martin Gilbert}}</ref>
|-
| {{Flagu|England}} || '''1994''' || [[Merton College, Oxford]] || [[Honorary title (academic)|Honorary Fellowship]]
|-
| {{Flagu|Wales}} || '''1997''' || [[University of Wales, Lampeter]] || [[Honorary title (academic)|Honorary Fellowship]]
|-
| {{Flagu|California}} || '''2002''' || [[University of California, San Diego]] || [[Honorary title (academic)|Distinguished Visiting Fellow]] 
|-
| {{Flagu|Michigan}} || '''2002''' || [[Hillsdale College]] || [[Honorary title (academic)|Distinguished Fellow]] 
|-
| {{Flagu|England}} || '''2008''' || [[Churchill College, Cambridge]] || [[Honorary title (academic)|Honorary Fellowship]]
|-
|}
{{Incomplete list|date=April 2018}}

==Personal life==
Gilbert was the target of a serious attempt by the [[State Protection Authority]] of [[Hungary]] to recruit him as an agent in the early 1960s. He initially responded warmly, and agreed to go on a Hungarian government-funded trip to [[Budapest]] in September 1961, and expressed views about Britain which seemed designed to impress his Hungarian hosts (mixed with some untruths about his background). The Hungarians attempted to intercept the many letters he sent back home during the trip, and were able to work out that Gilbert was lying about being a Communist. When invited to a further meeting in Paris, Gilbert did not show up and eventually when his intended handler defected to the West, the Hungarians gave up. Gilbert never explained the incident himself. Writing about it in 2015, Hungarian historian Krisztián Ungváry noted that Gilbert must have realised what was going on, and may have been used by the British intelligence services to plant a double agent.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Ungvárya |first=Krisztián  |date=4 August 2015 |title=England, Sir Martin Gilbert and Hungarian State Security |journal=Journal of Intelligence History |volume=15 |issue=1 |pages=1–16 |doi=10.1080/16161262.2015.1061796 |s2cid=146421634 |url=http://real.mtak.hu/45543/1/Gilbert_editedmay.pdf  }}</ref>

In 1963, he married Helen Constance Robinson, with whom he had a daughter. He had two sons with his second wife, Susan Sacher, whom he married in 1974. From 2005, he was married to the [[Holocaust]] historian Esther Gilbert, née Goldberg.<ref name=autogenerated1 /> Gilbert described himself as a proud practising Jew and a [[Zionist]].<ref>{{cite news | last = Brown | first = David | title = Chilcot inquiry member Sir Martin Gilbert praises Gordon Brown | work = [[The Times]] | date = 22 January 2010 | url = http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article7006269.ece | access-date = 28 January 2010 | location = London | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110605012356/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article7006269.ece | archive-date = 5 June 2011 | df = dmy-all }}</ref>

==Death==
In March 2012, while on a trip to [[Jerusalem]], Gilbert developed a [[heart arrhythmia]] from which he never recovered.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/04/sir-martin-gilbert|title=Sir Martin Gilbert obituary Eminent historian who wrote the definitive biography of Winston Churchill|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=3 February 2015|access-date=3 February 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150205222338/http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/04/sir-martin-gilbert|archive-date=5 February 2015}}</ref> He died in London on 3 February 2015, aged 78.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/martin-gilbert-preeminent-churchill-biographer-and-holocaust-historian-dies/2015/02/04/c0e7e1a4-ac7f-11e4-9c91-e9d2f9fde644_story.html|title=Martin Gilbert, preeminent Churchill biographer and Holocaust historian, dies|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=4 February 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107195431/https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/martin-gilbert-preeminent-churchill-biographer-and-holocaust-historian-dies/2015/02/04/c0e7e1a4-ac7f-11e4-9c91-e9d2f9fde644_story.html|archive-date=7 November 2017}}</ref> Gilbert asked to be buried in Israel. A Memorial Tribute attended by [[Gordon Brown]] and Randolph Churchill (that is, Randolph Leonard Spencer-Churchill, the great-grandson of Winston Churchill) was organised on 24 November 2015 in the Western Marble Arch Synagogue, London.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.martingilbert.com/sir-martin-gilbert-memorial-evening/|title=Sir Martin Gilbert Memorial Tribute|website=Sir Martin Gilbert|access-date=23 October 2019}}</ref>

Gilbert's death was announced on 4 February 2015 by Sir John Chilcot. Giving evidence before the [[Foreign Affairs Select Committee]] about delays in the publication of the report of the [[Iraq Inquiry]], Chilcot reported that Gilbert had died the previous night following a long illness.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-31119256|title=Iraq Inquiry: Chilcot rejects calls for report timetable|publisher=[[BBC News]]|date=4 February 2015|access-date=4 February 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150204100520/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-31119256|archive-date=4 February 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.itv.com/news/update/2015-02-04/iraq-inquiry-panel-member-sir-martin-gilbert-dies-aged-78/|title=Iraq Inquiry panel member Sir Martin Gilbert dies aged 78|work=[[ITV News]]|date=4 February 2015|access-date=4 February 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150204121104/http://www.itv.com/news/update/2015-02-04/iraq-inquiry-panel-member-sir-martin-gilbert-dies-aged-78/|archive-date=4 February 2015}}</ref><ref name="Doherty">{{cite news | last=Doherty | first=Rosa | url=http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/129421/historian-sir-martin-gilbert-dies-78 | title=Historian Sir Martin Gilbert dies at 78 | work=[[The Jewish Chronicle]] | location=London | date=4 February 2015 | access-date=4 February 2015 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150204183946/http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/129421/historian-sir-martin-gilbert-dies-78 | archive-date=4 February 2015 | df=dmy-all }}</ref>

==Books==

===Biography of Winston Churchill===
Volumes one and two were written by Churchill's son [[Randolph Churchill]], who also edited the two companions to volume one. Gilbert's first work as official biographer was to supervise the posthumous publication of the three companions to volume two, but these were published in Randolph Churchill's name, and indeed, Randolph had already compiled most of the material in his lifetime. In 2008, Gilbert announced that the job of publishing the remaining companion volumes had been taken over by the Hillsdale Press, and the first of these appeared in 2014. The Hillsdale Press had already reprinted the complete biography in eight volumes and the sixteen published companion volumes, as a series titled "The Churchill Documents", so that the volume of 2014 became the seventeenth instalment of this series. Gilbert was incapacitated shortly after its publication, so that subsequent volumes were posthumously published by Gilbert's former research assistant [[Larry Arnn]], with Gilbert credited as co-author.
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | title = Winston S Churchill | volume = Three: The Challenge of War: 1914–1916 | year = 1971a |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = Winston S Churchill | volume = Four: The Stricken World 1917–1922 | year = 1975 |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = Winston S Churchill | volume = Five: Prophet of Truth 1922–1939 | year = 1979a |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = Winston S Churchill | volume = Six: Finest Hour 1939–1941 | year = 1983 |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = Winston S Churchill | volume = Seven: Road to Victory 1941–1945 | year = 1986a |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = Winston S Churchill | volume = Eight: Never Despair 1945–1965 | year = 1988 |ref=none}}

====Companion volumes====
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | title = Winston S Churchill | volume = Three, Documents | year = 1972a |ref=none}} (in two volumes)
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = Winston S Churchill | volume = Four, Documents | year = 1977a |ref=none}} (in three volumes)
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = Winston S Churchill | volume = The Exchequer Years, 1922–1929, Documents | year = 1979b |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = Winston S Churchill | volume = The Wilderness Years, 1929–1935, Documents | year = 1981a |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = Winston S Churchill | volume = The Coming of War, 1936–1939, Documents | year = 1982a |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = The Churchill War Papers | volume = One: Winston S Churchill, 'At The Admiralty': September 1939 – May 1940 | year = 1993a |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = The Churchill War Papers | volume = Two: Winston S Churchill, 'Never Surrender': May – December 1940 | year = 1995a |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = The Churchill War Papers | volume = Three: Winston S Churchill, 'The Ever-Widening War': 1941 | year = 2000a |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = The Churchill Documents | volume = Seventeen: Testing Times: 1942 | year = 2014 |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first1 = Martin | last1 = Gilbert |  first2 = Larry | last2 = Arnn | author-mask = 2 | title = The Churchill Documents | volume = Eighteen: One Continent Redeemed, January–August 1943 | year = 2015 |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first1 = Martin | last1 = Gilbert |  first2 = Larry | last2 = Arnn | author-mask = 2 | title = The Churchill Documents | volume = Nineteen: Fateful Questions, September 1943 – April 1944 | year = 2017 |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first1 = Martin | last1 = Gilbert |  first2 = Larry | last2 = Arnn | author-mask = 2 | title = The Churchill Documents | volume = Twenty: Normandy and Beyond, May–December 1944 | year = 2018 |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first1 = Martin | last1 = Gilbert |  first2 = Larry | last2 = Arnn | author-mask = 2 | title = The Churchill Documents | volume = Twenty-One: The Shadows of Victory, January–July 1945 | year = 2019 |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first1 = Martin | last1 = Gilbert |  first2 = Larry | last2 = Arnn | author-mask = 2 | title = The Churchill Documents | volume = Twenty-Two: Leader of the Opposition, August 1945–October 1951 | year = 2019 |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first1 = Martin | last1 = Gilbert |  first2 = Larry | last2 = Arnn | author-mask = 2 | title = The Churchill Documents | volume = Twenty-Three: Never Flinch, Never Weary, November 1951-February 1965 | year = 2019 |ref=none}}

===Other books on Winston Churchill===
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | title = Winston Churchill | year = 1966a |ref=none}}, a short biography for use in schools
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = Churchill: Great Lives Observed | year = 1967 |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = Churchill: A Photographic Portrait | year = 1974a |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = Churchill: An Illustrated Biography | year = 1979c |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = Churchill's Political Philosophy | year = 1981b |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years | year = 1981c |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = Churchill, A Life | year = 1991 |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = In Search of Churchill | year = 1994 |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | editor-first = Martin | editor-last = Gilbert | title = Winston Churchill and Emery Reves, Correspondence 1937–1964 | year = 1997 |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | title = Churchill at War: His 'Finest Hour' in Photographs, 1940–1945 | year = 2003a |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = Continue to Pester, Nag and Bite | year = 2004a |ref=none}}, retitled ''Winston Churchill's War Leadership''
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = Churchill and America | year = 2005 |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = Will of the People | year = 2006a |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = Churchill and the Jews | year = 2007 |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = Churchill: The Power of Words | year = 2012 |ref=none}}

===Other biographies and history books===
* {{Citation | first1 = Martin | last1 = Gilbert | author1-mask = 3 | title = The Appeasers | first2 = Richard | last2 = Gott | year = 1963 |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | editor-first = Martin | editor-last = Gilbert | title = Britain and Germany Between the Wars | year = 1964 |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | title = The European Powers 1900–1945 | year = 1965a |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | editor-first = Martin | editor-last = Gilbert | title = Plough My Own Furrow: The Life of [[Clifford Allen, 1st Baron Allen of Hurtwood|Lord Allen of Hurtwood]]| year = 1965b |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | title = Recent History Atlas, 1860–1960 | year = 1965c |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = The Roots of Appeasement | year = 1966b |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | editor-first = Martin | editor-last = Gilbert | title = Servant of India | year = 1966c |ref=none}}, A Study of Imperial Rule in India from 1905 to 1910 as told through the correspondence and diaries of Sir [[James Dunlop Smith|James Dunlop-Smith]], Private Secretary to the Viceroy of India
* {{Citation | editor-first = Martin | editor-last = Gilbert | editor-mask = 3 | title = Lloyd George: Great Lives Observed | year = 1968a |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | title = British History Atlas | year = 1968b |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = American History Atlas | year = 1968c |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = Jewish History Atlas | year = 1969 |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = The Second World War | year = 1970 |ref=none}}, for use in schools
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = First World War Atlas | journal = The Geographical Journal | year = 1971b | volume = 137 | issue = 4 | page = 589 | doi = 10.2307/1797186 | jstor = 1797186 | bibcode = 1971GeogJ.137..589M |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = Russian History Atlas | year = 1972b |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = Sir Horace Rumbold: Portrait of a Diplomat, 1869–1941 | year = 1973 |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Its History in Maps | year = 1974b |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = The Jews of Arab Lands: Their History in Maps | year = 1976a |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = The Jews of Russia: Their History in Maps and Photographs | year = 1976b |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = Jerusalem Illustrated History Atlas | year = 1977b |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = Exile and Return: The Emergence of Jewish Statehood | year = 1978a |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = The Holocaust, Maps and Photographs | year = 1978b |ref=none}}, for use in schools
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = Final Journey: The Fate of the Jews of Nazi Europe | year = 1979d |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = Children's Illustrated Bible Atlas | year = 1979e |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = Auschwitz and the Allies | year = 1981d |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = Atlas of the Holocaust | year = 1982b |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = Jews of Hope, The Plight of Soviet Jewry Today | year = 1984 |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = Jerusalem: Rebirth of a City | year = 1985 |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = The Holocaust: The Jewish Tragedy | year = 1986b |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = Shcharansky: Hero of Our Time | year = 1986c |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = Second World War | year = 1989 |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = Atlas of British Charities | year = 1993b |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = First World War | year = 1994 |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = The Day the War Ended: May&nbsp;8,&nbsp;1945 | year = 1995b |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = Jerusalem in the Twentieth Century | year = 1996a |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = The Boys, Triumph Over Adversity | year = 1996b |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = A History of the Twentieth Century | volume = One: 1900–1933 | year = 1997b |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = Holocaust Journey: Travelling in Search of the Past | year = 1997c  |ref=none}}
* {{citation |first=Martin |last=Gilbert |author-mask=2 |title=Israel: A History |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wn6gAAAAMAAJ |year=1998 |publisher=[[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]] |isbn=978-0-385-40401-3 |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = A History of the Twentieth Century | volume = Two, 1933–1951. Descent into Barbarism | year = 1999a |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = A History of the Twentieth Century | volume = Three, 1952–1999. Challenge to Civilisation | year = 1999b |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = Never Again: A History of the Holocaust | year = 2000b |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = From The Ends of the Earth: The Jews in the Twentieth Century | year = 2001a |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = History of the Twentieth Century | year = 2001b |ref=none}}, condensed version of his three volume history
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = [[Letters to Auntie Fori]]: The 5,000-Year History of the Jewish People and their Faith | year = 2002a}}<ref name="Alderman2012">{{cite news |last1=Alderman |first1=Geoffrey|author-link=Geoffrey Alderman|title=Review: Letters to Auntie Fori by Martin Gilbert |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/apr/27/historybooks.highereducation |access-date=7 July 2023 |work=the Guardian |date=26 April 2002 |language=en}}</ref>
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = The Righteous: The Unsung Heroes of the Holocaust | year = 2002b |ref=none}}
* {{citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = Geistliche als Retter – auch eine Lehre aus dem Holocaust | url = http://www.mohr.de/en/jewish-studies/subject-areas/all-books/buch/geistliche-als-retter-auch-eine-lehre-aus-dem-holocaust.html | trans-title = The Christian Clergy as Rescuers: A Holocaust Imperative | place = Tübingen | publisher = Mohr Siebeck | isbn = 978-3-16-148229-8 | year = 2003b | language = de | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130624164933/http://www.mohr.de/en/jewish-studies/subject-areas/all-books/buch/geistliche-als-retter-auch-eine-lehre-aus-dem-holocaust.html | archive-date = 24 June 2013 | df = dmy-all }}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = D-Day | year = 2004b |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = Kristallnacht: Prelude to Destruction | year = 2006b |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = The Somme: Heroism and Horror in the First World War | year = 2006c |ref=none}}
* {{Citation |first=Martin |last=Gilbert |author-mask=2 |title=The Story of Israel |year=2008a |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = Israel: A History | year = 2008b |ref=none|publisher=Harper Perennial|edition=Revised}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = Atlas of the Second World War | year = 2009 |ref=none}}
* {{Citation | first = Martin | last = Gilbert | author-mask = 2 | title = In Ishmael's House: A History of the Jews in Muslim Lands | publisher = Yale University Press | place = New Haven, CT | year = 2010 | isbn = 978-0-300-16715-3 |ref=none}}

==See also==
*[[Fori Nehru]]

== References ==
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* {{Citation | url = http://www.martingilbert.com/ | title = Martin Gilbert Online}}
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* {{Citation | url = http://www.jpost.com/ArtsAndCulture/Books/Article.aspx?id=52363 | title = One on One with Sir Martin Gilbert: Hindsight and aforethought | type = interview | first = Ruthie | last = Blum | newspaper = [[The Jerusalem Post]] | date = 22 February 2007 |ref=none}}
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