Brian Harrison (historian)

For other uses, see Brian Harrison (disambiguation).

Professor Sir Brian Howard Harrison, FBA (born 9 July 1937) is a British historian and academic. From 1996 to 2004, he was Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford. From 2000 to 2004, he was also the Editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

Academic career

Harrison was Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford from 1996 to 2004. He was additionally the editor of Oxford Dictionary of National Biography from January 2000 to September 2004 (succeeded by Lawrence Goldman). Since 2004, he has been an emeritus fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.[1]

Harrison has published extensively on British social and political history from the 1790s to the present. His first book was Drink and the Victorians. The Temperance Question England 1815–1872 (1971, 2nd. ed. 1994). His most recent publications are two volumes in the New Oxford History of England series covering British history from 1951:

Seeking a Role: The United Kingdom 1951–1970 (2009, paperback with revisions 2011); online
Finding a Role? The United Kingdom 1970–1990 (2010, paperback with revisions 2011). online

Honours

Harrison was appointed Knight Bachelor in the 2005 New Year Honours for "services to scholarship". He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) on 30 July 2005.[1] He is also an elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS).[2]

References

  1. 1 2 "HARRISON, Professor Sir Brian". British Academy Fellows. British Academy. Archived from the original on 14 January 2016. Retrieved 5 September 2015.
  2. "Fellows - H" (PDF). Royal Historical Society. October 2014. Retrieved 5 September 2015.

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