Richard G. Rodger, FRHistS, FAcSS, is a historian specialising in the urban, economic and social history of modern Britain. Previously Professor of Urban History and Director of the Centre for Urban History at the University of Leicester, and from 2007-2017 Professor of Economic and Social History at Edinburgh University.
Rodger completed his master of arts (MA) and doctor of philosophy (PhD) degrees in economics and economic history at Edinburgh University; his PhD was awarded in 1976 for a thesis entitled Scottish Urban Housebuilding, 1870–1914. He was appointed to a lectureship in economic history at Liverpool University (1971–79) before moving to the University of Leicester, where he was appointed as a lecturer economic and social history in 1979, subsequently becoming Professor of Urban History and Director of the Centre for Urban History and the East Midlands Oral History Archive. Rodger held a position as associate professor in the University of Kansas (1982-1986), and visiting positions at Trinity College, Hartford CT (1990), and Meijo University, Japan (2004). He also held an ESRC Senior Fellowship (1995) and a Leverhulme Senior Fellowship (1996) at Edinburgh University, where he returned in 2007 as Professor of economic and social history. He remained at Leicester University as an Honorary Visiting Professor, and in 2017 became Emeritus Professor of History at Edinburgh University.[1][2]
Housing the People: the 'Colonies' of Edinburgh 1860–1950 (City of Edinburgh and Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, 1999).
Housing in Urban Britain 1780–1914 (Cambridge University Press, 1995)
Research in Urban History (Scolar Press, 1994)
(edited with D. Reeder, D. N. Nash, and P. Jones) Leicester in the Twentieth Century (Alan Sutton, 1993)
(edited with R. J. Morris) The Victorian City: A Reader in British Urban History, 1820–1914 (Longmans, 1993)
(edited) European Urban History: Prospect and Retrospect (Leicester University Press 1993)
(edited) Scottish Housing in the Twentieth Century (Leicester University Press, 1989)
Housing in Urban Britain 1780–1914: Class, Capitalism and Construction (Macmillan, 1989)
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