Philip Waller | |
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| Born | Philip John Waller 1946 (age 74–75) |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Magdalen College, Oxford |
| Occupation | Historian Emeritus fellow Merton College |
| Known for | 19th-century History |
Philip John Waller (born 1946) is an English historian and emeritus fellow of Merton College, University of Oxford. He is the author of a number of academic texts.
Philip Waller was born in 1946, and studied history at Magdalen College, Oxford. [1] He enjoyed a long career at Merton College, Oxford, where he was Tutor in Modern History from 1971 to 2008. [2]
He also served as Senior Tutor and Sub-Warden of Merton, and held visiting professorships at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, in 1979 and Colorado College, Colorado Springs, in 1985. [2] [1]
Waller is the author of a number of academic texts, including Democracy and Sectarianism: A Political and Social History of Liverpool, 1868–1939, published in 1981, and Town, City, and Nation: England 1850–1914, published by Oxford University Press in 2006. [2]
He has published many essays and articles in a variety of academic journals, magazines and symposia, and in 2003 he served as editor of The English Historical Review . [1] [2]
While at Merton, Waller led history reading parties in Cornwall, a tradition begun by his predecessor Roger Highfield in 1953. Even in retirement Waller continued to invite undergraduate historians to visit his home on Bodmin Moor. [3]
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