{{Short description|English historian and academic}} {{for|the producer of the 1924 film|The Flaming Crisis}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2021}} {{Use British English|date=June 2012}} {{BLP sources|date=August 2009}} {{Infobox person | name = Lawrence Goldman | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|FRHistS}} | image = Lawrence Goldman (cropped).jpeg | caption = Goldman at the IHR London, February 2016 | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1957|6|17}} | birth_place = London, England | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Historian | alma_mater = [[Jesus College, Cambridge]]<br>[[Yale University]] | years_active = | awards = }} '''Lawrence Goldman''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRHistS}} (born 17 June 1957) is an English historian and academic. He is the former director the ''[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]'' (2004 to 2014) and of the [[Institute of Historical Research]] (2014 to 2017), University of London. He has a PhD from the [[University of Cambridge]].
==Biography== Born in London, he read history at [[Jesus College, Cambridge]] (1976–79), as an undergraduate. Upon graduation he received a [[Harkness Fellowship]], which enabled him to study history of slavery and [[American Civil War]] at [[Yale University]] for a year with Ed Morgan, [[David Montgomery (historian)|David Montgomery]] and [[David Brion Davis]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20171213231504/https://blog.history.ac.uk/2014/10/introducing-the-new-director-of-the-ihr/ Introducing the new Director of the IHR], 9 October 2014</ref><ref>[https://talkinghumanities.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2016/02/02/interview-with-professor-lawrence-goldman/ Interview with Professor Lawrence Goldman], ''Talking Humanities'', 2 February 2016</ref> He returned to Cambridge to undertake research in Victorian social science and social policy, and in 1982 he was elected a junior research fellow at [[Trinity College, Cambridge|Trinity College]]. In 1985, he moved to [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] as university lecturer in the Department for Continuing Education. He continues to teach regular adult classes and is president of the Thames and Solent district of the [[Workers' Educational Association]]. In 1990, he was appointed to a Fellowship at [[St Peter's College, Oxford|St Peter's College]], where he has also served as admissions tutor and senior dean.<ref name="spc">{{cite web |title =People: Dr Lawrence Goldman |publisher =St Peter's College, Oxford |url =https://www.spc.ox.ac.uk/whos-here/academic/prof-lawrence-goldman |access-date =2011-01-09 |url-status =bot: unknown |archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20171213230411/https://www.spc.ox.ac.uk/whos-here/academic/prof-lawrence-goldman |archive-date =13 December 2017 }}</ref>
During the academic year 2000–01, he was the university assessor, a senior administrator responsible for student welfare. He has served as chairman of examiners for the Final Honour School of Modern History.
On 1 October 2004, Goldman was appointed editor<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2 April 2014 |title=Institute of Historical Research announces new Director |url=https://www.sas.ac.uk/about-us/news/institute-historical-research-announces-new-director |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221008024044/https://www.sas.ac.uk/about-us/news/institute-historical-research-announces-new-director |archive-date=8 October 2022 |website=School of Advanced Study |publisher=University of London |via=Internet Archive}}</ref> of the ''[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]'', published by [[Oxford University Press]], succeeding [[Brian Harrison (historian)|Brian Harrison]]. The appointment was for ten years.
Goldman was the director of the [[University of London]]'s [[Institute of Historical Research]] from 2014<ref name=":0" /> to 2017.
==Selected bibliography== ===Author=== *{{cite book | url=http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198205753.001.0001/acprof-9780198205753 | title=Dons and Workers: Oxford and Adult Education Since 1850 | publisher=Oxford: [[Clarendon Press]] | year=1995 | isbn=978-0198205753| doi=10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198205753.001.0001 | last1=Goldman | first1=Lawrence }} *"Exceptionalism and Internationalism: The Origins of American Social Science Reconsidered", ''[[The Journal of Historical Sociology]]'' Vol. 11, 1 (1998) pp. 1–36 *{{cite journal | title=Intellectuals and the English Working Class 1870–1945: The case of adult education | journal=[[History of Education Quarterly|History of Education]] | year=2000 | volume=29 | issue=4 | pages=281–300 | doi=10.1080/00467600050044662|last1 = Goldman|first1 = Lawrence| s2cid=144749564 }} *"Education as Politics: University Adult Education in England since 1870", ''Oxford Review of Education'' Vol. 25, nos. 1&2 (1999) pp. 89–101 *"Republicanism, Radicalism and Sectionalism: Land Reform and the Languages of American Working Men 1820–1860", in ''Articulating America: Fashioning a National Political Culture in Early America, 1750–1850'', ed. Rebecca Starr (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001) pp. 177–233 *''Science, Reform and Politics in Victorian Britain: The Social Science Association 1857-1886'' (CUP, 2002) *"Civil Society in Nineteenth-century Britain and Germany: [[J. M. Ludlow]], [[Lujo Brentano]] and the Labour Question", in ''Civil Society in British History: Ideas, Identities, Institutions'', ed. [[Jose Harris]] (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003) pp. 97–113 *''From art to politics: [[John Ruskin]] and [[William Morris]]'' (London: [[William Morris Society]], 2005)
===Editor=== * ''The blind Victorian: Henry Fawcett and British liberalism'' (Cambridge: [[Cambridge University Press]], 1989) * (With [[Peter Ghosh]]) ''Politics and culture in Victorian Britain: essays in memory of [[Colin Matthew]]'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006)
===Articles in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''=== * Sir [[Walter Frederick Crofton]] (1815–1897) * [[Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother]] (1900–2002) * [[Henry Fawcett]] (1833–1884) * [[George Woodyatt Hastings]] (1825–1917) * Sir [[John Arthur Ransome Marriott]] (1859–1945) * [[Richard Henry Tawney]], (1880–1962)
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