Hugh St Clair Cunningham (born 1942) is a historian and retired academic. A specialist in the history of childhood, nationalism, philanthropy and leisure, he is an

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of social history at the

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Career

Born in 1942,''The Writers' Directory 2005'', vol. 1 (2005), p. 373. Cunningham completed a Bachelor of Arts degree at the

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, graduating in 1963.''The Academic Who's Who'' (A. and C. Black, 1973), p. 110. He was then a

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at the

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from 1963 to 1966. He returned to studying, completing a doctorate at the

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; his

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was awarded in 1969 for his thesis "British Public Opinion and the Eastern Question 1877–1878". In 1969, Cunningham became a lecturer at the

, where he was promoted to a senior lecturership in 1984 and then to be

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of social history in 1991. He was still on the faculty at the end of the 2001–2002 year, but had retired by March 2004."Staff at the School of History"
''

''. Archived at the

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on 7 March 2004. He was appointed an emeritus professor on retirement. In a staff profile, he listed his specialisms as: the "history of childhood; leisure; popular nationalism; British history 1832–1918". More recently, he has studied charity and philanthropy."Hugh Cunningham"

University of Kent
'. Retrieved 7 June 2021.

Bibliography

Books Peer-reviewed articles and chapters

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cunningham, Hugh 1942 births English historians Alumni of the University of Cambridge Academics of the University of Kent Living people