Ian Archer | |
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Born | Ian Wallace Archer |
Nationality | British |
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 |
Academic work | |
Discipline | History |
Sub-discipline | |
Institutions | Girton College, Cambridge Downing College, Cambridge Keble College, Oxford |
Ian Wallace Archer FRHistS is a historian of early modern London and the Robert Stonehouse Tutorial Fellow in History at Keble College, University of Oxford. [1] [2]
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]
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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