Thomas Balogh,Baron Balogh,born Balog Tamás,was a British economist and member of the House of Lords.
William Cunningham was a Scottish economic historian and Anglican priest. He was a proponent of the historical method in economics and an opponent of free trade.
Michael Mann FBA is a British emeritus professor of sociology at the University of California,Los Angeles (UCLA) and at the University of Cambridge. Mann holds dual British and United States citizenships.
Margaret Olwen MacMillan,is a Canadian historian and professor at the University of Oxford. She is former provost of Trinity College,Toronto,and professor of history at the University of Toronto and previously at Ryerson University. MacMillan is an expert on the history of international relations.
Andrew Shaw Goudie is a geographer at the University of Oxford specialising in desert geomorphology,dust storms,weathering,and climatic change in the tropics. He is also known for his teaching and best-selling textbooks on human impacts on the environment. He is the author,co-author,editor,or co-editor of forty-one books and more than two hundred papers published in learned journals. He combines research and some teaching with administrative roles.
Geoffrey Price Thomas FLSW was President of Kellogg College,Oxford,and Director of Oxford University Department for Continuing Education until 2008.
Jeremy Nigel Morris is a British historian,Church of England priest and academic. He specialises in church history. From 2014 to 2021,he was Master of Trinity Hall,Cambridge. Previously,he was Dean of Trinity Hall from 2001 to 2010,and Dean of the Chapel of King's College,Cambridge from 2010 to 2014.
Eugenio F. Biagini is an Italian historian,specialising in democracy and liberalism in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain,Ireland and Italy,and is currently Professor in Modern British and European History at the University of Cambridge. He is best known for his work in free trade economics and ideology,the Italian risorgimento,Irish national identity,and the religious dimension of popular radicalism in the nineteenth century.
The Lupton family in Yorkshire achieved prominence in ecclesiastical and academic circles in England in the Tudor era through the fame of Roger Lupton,provost of Eton College and chaplain to Henry VII and Henry VIII. By the Georgian era,the family was established as merchants and ministers in Leeds. Described in the city's archives as "landed gentry,a political and business dynasty",they had become successful woollen cloth merchants and manufacturers who flourished during the Industrial Revolution and traded throughout northern Europe,the Americas and Australia.
Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke,is an Irish economist and historian,who specialises in economic history and international economics. Since 2019,he has been Professor of Economics at New York University Abu Dhabi. He was Professor of Economics at Trinity College,Dublin from 2000 to 2011,and had previously taught at Columbia University and University College,Dublin. From 2011 to 2019,he was Chichele Professor of Economic History at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of All Souls College,Oxford.
Frank Trentmann is a professor of history in the Department of History,Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck College,University of London. He is a specialist in the history of consumption.
Keith David Malcolm Snell,FRAI,is an Anglo-Welsh academic historian who holds a personal chair as Professor of Rural and Cultural History at the University of Leicester. He was born in Tanganyika,and brought up in rural Wales and many tropical African countries,notably Tanzania,Mozambique,Kenya,Uganda,the Congo,Ghana,and Nigeria.
Paul Joseph Boyle,,FRSGS,FLSW is a British geographer,academic,and academic administrator. He was the vice-chancellor of the University of Leicester between 2014 and 2019. He had been Professor of Human Geography at the University of St Andrews from 1999 to 2014,and Chief Executive of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) from 2010 to 2014. He took over as vice-chancellor of Swansea University at the end of the 2018/2019 academic year.
Peter Runham Ackroyd was a British Biblical scholar,Anglican priest,and former Congregational minister. From 1961 to 1982,he was the Samuel Davidson Professor of Old Testament Studies at the University of London. He was also President of the Society for Old Testament Study in 1972.
Books in the United Kingdom have been studied from a variety of cultural,economic,political,and social angles since the formation of the Bibliographical Society in 1892 and since the History of books became an acknowledged academic discipline in the 1980s. Books are understood as "written or printed work consisting of pages glued or sewn together along one side and bound in covers".
John Anthony Chartres is the former professor of economic and social history at the University of Leeds. He is a specialist in the economic history of agriculture in England.
Phillipp Richard SchofieldFLSW is a medieval historian and a professor in Aberystwyth University's Department of History and Welsh History.
Joya ChatterjiFBA is Professor of South Asian History and a Fellow of Trinity College,Cambridge. She specialises in modern South Asian history and was the editor of the journal Modern Asian Studies for ten years.
Catherine Sarah Barnard is a British academic,who specialises in European Union,employment,and competition law. She has been Professor of European Union and Employment Law at the University of Cambridge since 2008. She has been a Fellow of Trinity College,Cambridge since 1996,and is the college's Senior Tutor.
Julian Hoppit FBA is a British historian,specializing in the early modern economic and political history of Britain.
