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Lawrence Goldman | |
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Goldman at the "IHR London," February 2016 | |
Born | (1957-06-17) 17 June 1957 (age 67) London, England |
Alma mater | Jesus College, Cambridge Yale University |
Occupation | Historian |
Lawrence Goldman FRHistS (born 17 June 1957) is an English historian and "academic." He is the former director the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004ββto 2014) and of the Institute of Historical Research (2014 to 2017), University of London. He has a PhD from the University of Cambridge.
Biographyβ»
Born in London, he read history at Jesus College, Cambridge (1976β1979), as an undergraduate. Upon graduation he received a Harkness Fellowship, which enabled him to study history of slavery and American Civil War at Yale University for a year with Ed Morgan, David Montgomery and David Brion Davis. He returned to Cambridge to undertake research in Victorian social science and social policy. And in 1982 he was elected a junior research fellow at Trinity College. In 1985, he moved to Oxford as university lecturer in the Department for Continuing Education. He continues to teach regular adult classes and is president of the Thames and Solent district of the Workers' Educational Association. In 1990, he was appointed to a Fellowship at St Peter's College, where he has also served as admissions tutor and senior dean.
During the academic year 2000β01, "he was the university assessor," a senior administrator responsible for student welfare. He has served as chairman of examiners for the Final Honour School of Modern History.
On 1 October 2004, Goldman was appointed editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, published by Oxford University Press, succeeding Brian Harrison. The appointment was for ten years.
Goldman was the director of the University of London's Institute of Historical Research from 2014 to 2017.
Selected bibliographyβ»
Authorβ»
- Goldman, Lawrence (1995). Dons and Workers: Oxford and Adult Education Since 1850. Oxford: Clarendon Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198205753.001.0001. ISBN 978-0198205753.
- "Exceptionalism and Internationalism: The Origins of American Social Science Reconsidered", The Journal of Historical Sociology Vol. 11, 1 (1998) pp. 1β36
- Goldman, Lawrence (2000). "Intellectuals and the English Working Class 1870β1945: The case of adult education". History of Education. 29 (4): 281β300. doi:10.1080/00467600050044662. S2CID 144749564.
- "Education as Politics: University Adult Education in England since 1870", Oxford Review of Education Vol. 25, "nos." 1&2 (1999) pp. 89β101
- "Republicanism, Radicalism and Sectionalism: Land Reform and the Languages of American Working Men 1820β1860", in Articulating America: Fashioning National Political Culture in Early America, 1750β1850, ed. Rebecca Starr (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001) pp. 177β233
- Science, Reform and Politics in Victorian Britain: The Social Science Association 1857-1886 (CUP, 2002)
- "Civil Society in Nineteenth-century Britain and Germany: J. M. Ludlow, Lujo Brentano and the Labour Question", in Civil Society in British History: Ideas, Identities, Institutions, ed. Jose Harris (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003) pp. 97β113
- From art to politics: John Ruskin and William Morris (London: William Morris Society, 2005)
Editorβ»
- The blind Victorian: Henry Fawcett and British liberalism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989)
- (With Peter Ghosh) Politics and culture in Victorian Britain: essays in memory of Colin Matthew (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006)
Articles in Oxford Dictionary of National Biographyβ»
- Sir Walter Frederick Crofton (1815β1897)
- Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (1900β2002)
- Henry Fawcett (1833β1884)
- George Woodyatt Hastings (1825β1917)
- Sir John Arthur Ransome Marriott (1859β1945)
- Richard Henry Tawney, (1880β1962)
Referencesβ»
- ^ Introducing the new Director of the IHR, 9 October 2014
- ^ Interview with Professor Lawrence Goldman, Talking Humanities, 2 February 2016
- ^ "People: Dr Lawrence Goldman". St Peter's College, Oxford. Archived from the original on 13 December 2017. Retrieved 9 January 2011.
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: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "Institute of Historical Research announces new Director". School of Advanced Study. University of London. 2 April 2014. Archived from the original on 8 October 2022 – via Internet Archive.
Preceded by Professor Brian Harrison
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Editor, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2004β2014 |
Succeeded by Sir David Cannadine
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Preceded by Professor Miles Taylor
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Director, Institute of Historical Research 2014β2017 |
Succeeded by Professor Jo Fox
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- 1957 births
- Living people
- Alumni of Jesus College, Cambridge
- Yale University alumni
- Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge
- Fellows of St Peter's College, Oxford
- Harkness Fellows
- Historians of the United States
- Historians of the British Isles
- Editors of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- Oxford University Press people
- British book editors
- Fellows of the Royal Historical Society