Peter Ghosh

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Peter Ghosh
Born
Peter R. Ghosh

1954 (age 6970)
NationalityBritish
Occupation(s)Historian and academic
TitleProfessor of the History of Ideas
Spouse
(m. 1979)
Children2
Academic background
Alma mater Merton College, Oxford
Nuffield College, Oxford
Doctoral advisor A. F. Thompson
Institutions St Anne's College, Oxford

Peter R. Ghosh (/ɡəʊʃ/; gauche; [1] born December 1954, Sutton Coldfield) is a British historian, specialising in the history of ideas and historiography. [2] He was Jean Duffield Fellow in Modern History at St Anne's College, Oxford, and Professor of the History of Ideas at the Faculty of History, University of Oxford. [3]

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Career

Ghosh read Modern History at Merton College, Oxford as an undergraduate and continued his studies at graduate level at Nuffield College, Oxford, later becoming a Junior Research Fellow there. [4] His doctoral thesis on Victorian finance was supervised by A. F. Thompson. [5]

Ghosh was Jean Duffield Fellow in Modern History at St Anne's College, Oxford from 1982 to his retirement in 2023. [2] In January 2022 he was awarded the Title of Distinction of Professor of the History of Ideas by the University of Oxford. [6]

After retiring he became a Senior Research Fellow at St Anne's College [7] and continued to teach modern history at Jesus College. [4]

He has two related research interests: first, the interface between political ideas and English politics, c. 1850 – 1895; secondly, the evolution of Western European and British ideas, including historiography, from the Enlightenment to the present. [8]

He has written for the London Review of Books [9] and appeared on In Our Time discussing Max Weber. [10]

Personal life

Ghosh married Helen Kirkby, whom he met as a fellow History undergraduate at Oxford, in 1979. [11] They have two children together. [12] Their son William is an English tutor at Christ Church, Oxford. [13]

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