John D. Hargreaves

John Desmond Hargreaves (25 January 1924 – 14 February 2015 ) was the Burnett-Fletcher Professor of History at the University of Aberdeen.

Hargreaves was noted for his work on the history of Africa; its colonisation and de-colonisation. His career at Aberdeen began in 1954 when he was appointed as a lecturer in History. Hargreaves received his chair in 1962.

Hargreaves went part-time in 1982 and retired in 1985.[1] A Festschrift was produced in his honour.[2]

Hargreaves died on 14 February 2015 at the age of 91.[3]

Selected publications
  • Hargreaves, John D (1967) West Africa: the former French states, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall

Festschrift
  • Bridges, Roy (1999) Imperialism, Decolonization and Africa: Studies Presented to John Hargreaves (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series) Basingstoke : Macmillan[4]
gollark: ***gaaah***
gollark: Make sure that the first function yields enough.
gollark: It... shouldn't.
gollark: ```python#!/usr/bin/env python3from PIL import Imageimport mathimport sysdef chunks(l, n): for i in range(0, len(l), n): yield l[i:i + n]def from_bit_list(bl): i = 0 for ix, v in enumerate(bl): i |= v * (2 ** (7 - ix)) return iim = Image.open("out.png")id = im.load()(w, h) = im.sizebits = []for x in range(w): for y in range(h): bits.append(id[x, y])bits = [1 if x >= 1 else 0 for x in bits]byts = [from_bit_list(bytegroup) for bytegroup in chunks(bits, 8)]sys.stdout.buffer.write(bytes(byts))```Here it is. It's really rather awful.
gollark: With the companion program.

References
  1. Bridges, Roy (1997) John D. Hargreaves : an academic memoir and bibliography, Dept. of History
  2. Bridges, Roy (1999) Imperialism, decolonization, and Africa : studies presented to John Hargreaves: with an academic memoir and bibliography
  3. John Hargreaves obituary
  4. Canning, Paul M. (2001) Review of Imperialism, Decolonization, and Africa: Studies Presented to John Hargreaves: With an Academic Memoir and Bibliography by Roy Bridges, The International History Review Vol. 23, No. 2 Jun., pp. 430-432
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