Ian Archer

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Ian Archer
Born
Ian Wallace Archer

1960 (age 6465)
NationalityBritish
Occupation(s)Historian and academic
Academic background
Education Altrincham Grammar School for Boys
Alma mater Trinity College, Oxford
Thesis Governors and governed in late sixteenth-century London, c.1560-1603: Studies in the achievement of stability (1988)
Doctoral advisor Penry Williams
Institutions Girton College, Cambridge
Downing College, Cambridge
Keble College, Oxford

Ian Wallace Archer FRHistS (born 1960) is a historian of early modern London and the Robert Stonehouse Tutorial Fellow in History at Keble College, University of Oxford. [1] [2]

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Career

After graduating from Altrincham Grammar School for Boys and Trinity College, Oxford, [3] Archer started his academic career in 1986 as a research fellow at Girton College, University of Cambridge. In 1989 he moved to Downing College, Cambridge where he was director of studies in history until 1991. After leaving Cambridge he transferred to Keble College, Oxford. [1]

In 1991 Archer published his first monograph, The Pursuit of Stability: Social Relations in Elizabethan London, based on his DPhil thesis which was supervised by Penry Williams. [4]

From 1999 to 2010 Archer was academic editor of the Bibliography of British and Irish History . He is an honorary vice-president of the Royal Historical Society. [5] Archer served as Sub-Warden of Keble College from 2008 [6] to 2013; [7] in 2009 he was the college's Acting Warden while Averil Cameron was on research leave and presided over the election of her successor, Jonathan Phillips. [8]

Philanthropy

He is the chair of the education committee at the London Academy of Excellence Stratford, an Ofsted outstanding Free School. [9]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Dr Ian W. Archer — Keble". www.keble.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 12 August 2007.
  2. "Dr Ian Archer". www.history.ox.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 28 April 2004.
  3. "Dr Ian Archer - RHS". royalhistsoc.org. Archived from the original on 22 January 2016.
  4. Archer, Ian (1991). The Pursuit of Stability: Social Relations in Elizabethan London. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. xiii. ISBN   9780511522468.
  5. "Dr Ian Archer". Keble College. Retrieved 10 June 2023.
  6. "The Keble College Record 2009" (PDF). Keble College, Oxford. Retrieved 1 October 2024.
  7. "The Keble College Record 2012/13" (PDF). Keble College, Oxford. Retrieved 1 October 2024.
  8. "The Keble College Record 2010" (PDF). Keble College, Oxford. Retrieved 1 October 2024.
  9. "Our Staff and Governing Body - London Academy of Excellence".