Neil McKendrick MA

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(born 28 July 1935) was the 40th Master of

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. He is now a life fellow of the college. McKendrick was educated at Alderman Newton's School, Leicester, and

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, where he won an Entrance Scholarship. He is an

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Reader in History having taught ''Modern English Social and Economic History'' as well as ''Business, Literature and Society, 1690–1990''. He is also a fellow of the

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. During his time at the college he was successively Lecturer in History, Director of Studies in History, Graduate Tutor and Master. McKendrick was Chairman of the college committee which presided over the plans for the Cockerell Building, now the College Library, the Auditorium, and the public rooms in Gonville Court, directed by neo-classical architect John Simpson. More recently, he was even more deeply involved in their completion and their formal openings by the Duke of Edinburgh and the Prince of Wales – and in the refurbishment of the Master's Lodge, also John Simpson's work. Also under the Mastership of Neil McKendrick the College embarked on a fundraising appeal to support the construction of a new accommodation building, the

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Building, on the college's West Road site. He featured in Pseuds Corner of the

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: McKendrick is the namesake of the ''Neil McKendrick Lectureship in History'' at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge, currently held by Dr Melissa Calaresu.Eating Ice-Cream on the Streets of Naples: Materiality and Ephemerality in the History of Food

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Offices held

Publications

* McKendrick, N., 1982. The Commercialization of Fashion' in The Birth of a Consumer Society: The Commercialization of Eighteenth-Century England'' edited by Neil McKendrick, John Brewer and J.H. Plumb. London: Europa Publications Limited * McKendrick, N., 1970. "

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and

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in the

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". '' The Economic History Review''. Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 45–67. * McKendrick, N., 1964. "Josiah Wedgwood and

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: An Inventor-Entrepreneur Partnership in the Industrial Revolution". ''

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(Fifth Series)''. Vol. 14,pp. 1–33. * McKendrick, N., 1961. "Josiah Wedgwood and Factory Discipline". '' The Historical Journal''. Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 30–55. * McKendrick, N., 1957. "Josiah Wedgwood and

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''. Vol. 7, Issue 8.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:McKendrick, Neil 1935 births 20th-century British historians Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge British economic historians Fellows of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge Fellows of the Royal Historical Society Masters of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge British social historians Living people People educated at Alderman Newton's School, Leicester