Lawrence Goldman (born 17 June 1957) is an English historian and academic. He is the former director the ''

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'' (2004 to 2014) and of the

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(2014 to 2017), University of London. He has a PhD from the

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Biography

Born in London, he read history at

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(1976–79), 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, ...

.Interview with Professor Lawrence Goldman
''Talking Humanities'', 2 February 2016 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 Trinity College may refer to: Australia * Trinity Anglican College, an Anglican coeducational primary and secondary school in , New South Wales * Trinity Catholic College, Auburn, a coeducational school in the inner-western suburbs of Sydney, New ...

. 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. On 1 October 2004, Goldman was appointed editor of the ''

'', published by

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, succeeding Brian Harrison. The appointment was for ten years. Goldman was the director of the

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from 2014 to 2017.

Selected bibliography

Author

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

The Journal of Historical Sociology ''Sociology Lens'' is a peer-reviewed journal is edited by an international panel of historians, anthropologists, geographers and sociologists. Previously named the ''Journal of Historical Sociology'', the journal is both interdisciplinary in app ...

'' 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 Lujo Brentano (; ; 18 December 1844 – 9 September 1931) was a German economist and social reformer. Biography Lujo Brentano, born in Aschaffenburg into a German Catholic intellectual family (originally of Italian descent), attended school in ...

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 polymath a writer, lecturer, art historian, art critic, draughtsman and philanthropist of the Victorian era. He wrote on subjects as varied as art, architecture, Critique of politic ...

and

William Morris William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer, poet, artist, writer, and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts movement. He was a major contributor to the revival of traditiona ...

'' (London:

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, 2005)

Editor

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

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, 1989) * (With

Peter Ghosh Peter R. Ghosh (; ; born December 1954, Sutton Coldfield) is a British historian, specialising in the history of ideas and historiography. He was Jean Duffield Fellow in Modern History at St Anne's College, Oxford, and Professor of the History of ...

) ''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 ...

'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006)

Articles in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''

* Sir

Walter Frederick Crofton Sir Walter Frederick Crofton (1815–1897) was chair of the Board of Directors of Convict Prisons for Ireland between 1854 and 1862. He is sometimes cited as Alexander Maconochie's ideological heir. Under Crofton's system of prison administrati ...

(1815–1897) *

Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon (4 August 1900 – 30 March 2002) was Queen of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 to 6 February 1952 as the wife of King George VI. She was al ...

(1900–2002) *

Henry Fawcett Henry Fawcett (26 August 1833 – 6 November 1884) was a British academic, politician, statesman and economist. Background and education Henry Fawcett was born in Salisbury where his father was a gentleman farmer. He was educated at the A ...

(1833–1884) *

George Woodyatt Hastings George Woodyatt Hastings (25 September 1825 – 21 October 1917) was an English Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1892. Life Hastings was the only son of Sir Charles Hastings, M.D., D.C.L., founder of the British ...

(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 Honora ...

(1859–1945) * Richard Henry Tawney, (1880–1962)

References

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