Brian Harrison (historian)

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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 .

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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. 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, based on his doctoral thesis entitled The temperance question in England, 1829–1869. [2] ' His most recent publications are two volumes in the [New Oxford History of England] series covering British history from 1951.

National Life Stories conducted an oral history interview (C1149/24) with Harrison in 2012 for its Oral History of Oral History collection held by the British Library. [3] Harrison also did a video intervi with the Cambridge historian and social anthropologist Alan Macfarlane in 2012, [4] [5] which was also published in prose format. in Radha Beteille (ed,) From Antiquity to Ethnography. Keith Thomas, Brian Harrison and Peter Burke in conversation with Alan Macfarlane (Routledge, 2022), pp.60-121.

Between 1974 and 1981 Harrison conducted a series of oral history interviews with surviving suffrage campaigners, their relatives and employees, known as The Suffrage Interviews, or Oral evidence on the suffragette and suffragist movements: the Brian Harrison interviews. [6] The recordings were deposited with The Women's Library in 1981, and are now available online via The British Library of Political and Economic Science. The Library is working on a Wikidata project, WikiProject LSESuffrageInterviewsProject, which seeks to explore connections between individuals and organizations mentioned within the collection, and make the resource accessible to researchers in new ways.

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). [7]

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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. Harrison, B. (1965). The temperance question in England, 1829-1869 (http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text thesis). University of Oxford.{{cite thesis}}: External link in |degree= (help)
  3. National Life Stories, 'Harrison, Brian (1 of 25) National Life Stories Collection: Oral History of Oral History', The British Library Board, 2012. Retrieved 9 October 2017
  4. "Video & Audio: Brian Harrison - Metadata". sms.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 24 December 2023.
  5. "Video & Audio: Brian Harrison's Indexing System - Metadata". sms.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 24 December 2023.
  6. Murphy, Gillian. "The Suffrage Interviews". The London School of Economics and Political Science. Retrieved 17 November 2023.
  7. "Fellows - H" (PDF). Royal Historical Society. October 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 5 September 2015.