Historians of Ethiopia
The British family who chose Ethiopia, and the Swedish scholar who made its 19th-century history his life's work
Sylvia Pankhurst
5 May 1882, Manchester — 27 September 1960, Addis Ababa
Dr Richard Pankhurst
3 December 1927, Woodford Green — 16 February 2017, Addis Ababa
- An Introduction to the Economic History of Ethiopia from Early Times to 1800 (1961)
- Economic History of Ethiopia, 1800–1935 (1968)
- A History of Ethiopian Towns from the Middle Ages to the Early Nineteenth Century (1982)
- A Social History of Ethiopia (1990)
- History of the Ethiopian Borderlands: Essays in Regional History (1997)
- The Ethiopians: A History (1998 / 2001)
Dr Alula Pankhurst
Born 1962 — named for Ras Alula, the Tigrayan general who defeated the Italians at Dogali in 1887
Professor Sven Rubenson
1921, Sweden — 27 October 2013, Lund
— Dr Tsegaye Tegenu, Uppsala, 2013
Four lives. Sylvia is buried in Addis Ababa. Richard is buried in Addis Ababa. Sven Rubenson is buried in Lund — but thirty of his years, and the work that outlasts him, belong to Ethiopia. The third Pankhurst generation is still working. Thank you.