John Beckett (historian)

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John Beckett
Born
John Vincent Beckett

(1950-07-12) 12 July 1950 (age 74)
NationalityEnglish
Academic background
Alma mater University of Lancaster
Thesis Land Ownership in Cumbria, c. 1680–c. 1750 (1975)

John Vincent Beckett FSA FRHistS (born 1950) is an English local historian who has been Professor of English Regional History at the University of Nottingham since 1990.

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Career and research

Beckett was born on 12 July 1950 to William Vincent Beckett and his wife, Kathleen Amelia, née Reed. He completed an undergraduate degree at the University of Lancaster in 1971, which awarded him a Doctor of Philosophy degree four years later for his thesis Land Ownership in Cumbria, c. 1680–c. 1750. [1] [2]

From 1974 to 1976, Beckett was the Lord Adams Research Fellow at Newcastle University; he then spent two years lecturing at Fairleigh Dickinson University's Banbury-based Wroxton College, and then lectured at the University of Hull for a short period before taking up a lectureship at the University of Nottingham in 1979. He was promoted to a readership in English regional history in 1987, and three years later promoted to his current professorship. Beckett was also Director of the Victoria County History series from 2005 to 2010, and has served as chairman of a number of editorial boards, including that of the journal Midlands History (since 2001) and the History of Lincolnshire Committee of the Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology (since 1988). He has been chairman of the Thoroton Society since 1992 and chaired the British Agricultural History Society for four years from 2001. [1] [3]

Becket is a historian of England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He is a local historian, and has studied topics relating to village life, Parliamentary enclosure and local politics, agricultural history, church history, and the history of landed estates and their owners. [3]

Honours

Beckett was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1992 [4] and is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society as of 2018. [5]

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References

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  2. "Landownership in Cumbria c.1680-c.1750", EthOS (British Library). Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  3. 1 2 "John Beckett". University of Nottingham. Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  4. "Fellows Directory - Society of Antiquaries". Sal.org.uk. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
  5. "Fellows – B" Archived 7 May 2018 at the Wayback Machine , Royal Historical Society. Retrieved 8 May 2018.