Hugh R. Pemberton,

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, is an academic historian specialising in the late twentieth-century British politics and British social and economic policy. As of 2018, he is Professor of Contemporary British History at the

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Career

Pemberton spent a decade working in financial services as an analyst before moving into academia. He graduated from the

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with a

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degree, before completing a

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degree in contemporary history at the

, here he also carried out

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studies; his

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was awarded in 2001 for his

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"The Keynesian-plus experiment: a study of social learning in the UK core executive, 1960–1966". He stayed on at Bristol as an

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, before spending two years at the

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as a

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postdoctoral fellow. In 2004, he took up a lectureship at Bristol, where he is Professor of Contemporary British History as of 2018. He is also a

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."Professor Hugh Pemberton"
''University of Bristol''. Retrieved 11 September 2018."The Keynesian-plus experiment : a study of social learning in the UK core executive, 1960–1966"
''EThOS'' (British Library). Retrieved 11 September 2018. Pemberton's research has focused on British economic and social policy since the

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. He has studied

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s, administration and the

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, and party politics.

Publications

* ''Policy Learning and British Governance in the 1960s'', Transforming Government series (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). * (Co-editor with Lawrence Black) ''An Affluent Society?: Britain's Post-War "Golden Age" Revisited'' (Ashgate, 2004). * (Co-editor with

Pat Thane Patricia Thane, known as Pat, is a British historian. Career Thane studied history at the University of Oxford, and then completed her PhD under Brian Abel-Smith at the London School of Economics. She was a lecturer then senior lecturer in t ...

and

Noel Whiteside Borras Noel Hamilton Whiteside (12 December 1903 – 13 June 1948) was a British company director and politician, who served a single term as a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP). He was noted for his interest in aviation, being a private pi ...

) ''Britain's Pensions Crisis: History and Policy'' (Oxford University Press, 2006). * (Co-editor with Lawrence Black and

) ''Reassessing 1970s Britain'' (Manchester University Press, 2013).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pemberton, Hugh Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Alumni of the Open University Alumni of the University of Bristol Academics of the University of Bristol Academics of the London School of Economics Fellows of the Royal Historical Society