Peter R. Ghosh (; ; born December 1954, Sutton Coldfield) is a British historian, specialising in the history of ideas and historiography.

Career

Ghosh has been Jean Duffield Fellow in Modern History at St Anne's College, Oxford since 1982. He is also an associate professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford. He has two related research interests: first, the interface between political ideas and English politics, c. 1850 – 1895; secondly, the evolution of Western European and British ideas, including

historiography Historiography is the study of the methods of historians in developing history as an academic discipline, and by extension is any body of historical work on a particular subject. The historiography of a specific topic covers how historians ha ...

, from

the Enlightenment The Age of Enlightenment or the Enlightenment; german: Aufklärung, "Enlightenment"; it, L'Illuminismo, "Enlightenment"; pl, Oświecenie, "Enlightenment"; pt, Iluminismo, "Enlightenment"; es, La Ilustración, "Enlightenment" was an intel ...

to the present. He has written for the '' London Review of Books'' and appeared on '' In Our Time'' discussing Max Weber.

Personal life

Peter Ghosh is married to Dame Helen Ghosh.

Works

* ''Politics and Culture in Victorian Britain: Essays in Memory of Colin Matthew'' (2006) * ''A Historian Reads Max Weber: Essays on the Protestant Ethic'' (2008) * ''Max Weber and 'The Protestant Ethic': Twin Histories'' (2014) * ''Max Weber in Context: Essays in the History of German Ideas C. 1870-1930'' (2016)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ghosh, Peter British historians Fellows of St Anne's College, Oxford 1954 births Living people