Lawrence Goldman (born 17 June 1957) is an English historian and the former director of the

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. A former editor of the ''

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'', he has a PhD from the

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. He is a

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Biography

Born in London, he read history at

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(1976–1979) as an undergraduate. Upon graduation he received a

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, which enabled him to study history of slavery and

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for a year with Ed Morgan, David Montgomery and

David Brion Davis David Brion Davis (February 16, 1927 – April 14, 2019) was an American intellectual and cultural historian, and a leading authority on slavery and abolition in the Western world. He was a Sterling Professor of History at Yale University, ...

. 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

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. In 1985, he moved to

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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

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. 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 2000–01, 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 and recently chaired the first-ever review of the university archives. On 1 October 2004, Goldman was appointed editorInstitute of Historical Research announces new Director
2 April 2014 of the ''

'', published by

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, succeeding Brian Harrison. The appointment was for ten years.

Selected bibliography

Author

* *"Exceptionalism and Internationalism: The Origins of American Social Science Reconsidered", ''

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'' Vol. 11, 1 (1998) pp. 1–36 * *"Education as Politics: University Adult Education in England since 1870", ''Oxford Review of Education'' Vol. 25, nos. 1&2 (1999) pp. 89–101 *"Republicanism, Radicalism and Sectionalism: Land Reform and the Languages of American Working Men 1820–1860", in ''Articulating America: Fashioning a National Political Culture in Early America, 1750–1850'', ed. Rebecca Starr (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001) pp. 177–233 *''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. 97–113 *''From art to politics:

John Ruskin John Ruskin (8 February 1819 20 January 1900) was an English writer, philosopher, art critic and polymath of the Victorian era. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and pol ...

and

William Morris William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was a British textile designer, poet, artist, novelist, architectural conservationist, printer, translator and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts Movement. He w ...

'' (London:

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, 2005)

Editor

* ''The blind Victorian: Henry Fawcett and British liberalism'' (Cambridge:

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, 1989) * (With

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) ''Politics and culture in Victorian Britain: essays in memory of

Colin Matthew Henry Colin Gray Matthew (15 January 1941 – 29 October 1999) was a British historian and academic. He was an editor of the ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' and editor of the diaries of William Ewart Gladstone. Early life Matthew wa ...

'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006)

Articles in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''

* Sir

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(1815–1897) *

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(1900–2002) *

Henry Fawcett Henry Fawcett (26 August 1833 – 6 November 1884) was a British academic, statesman and economist. Background and education Henry Fawcett was born in Salisbury, and educated at King's College School and the University of Cambridge: enteri ...

(1833–1884) *

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(1825–1917) * Sir

John Arthur Ransome Marriott Sir John Arthur Ransome Marriott (17 August 1859 – 6 June 1945) was a British educationist, historian, and Conservative member of parliament (MP). Marriott taught modern history at the University of Oxford from 1884 to 1920. He was an Honor ...

(1859–1945) *

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, (1880–1962)

References

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