Peter Ghosh | |
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Born | Peter R. Ghosh 1954 (age 69–70) |
Nationality | British |
Occupation(s) | Historian and academic |
Title | Professor of the History of Ideas |
Spouse | Helen Ghosh |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Merton College, Oxford Nuffield College, Oxford |
Doctoral advisor | A. F. Thompson |
Academic work | |
Discipline | History |
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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]
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]
Peter Ghosh is married to Dame Helen Ghosh. [1]
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