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Find sources: "Lawrence Goldman" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (August 2009) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Lawrence Goldman FRHistS Goldman at the IHR London, February 2016 Born (1957-06-17) 17 June 1957 (age 69) London, England Alma mater Jesus College, Cambridge Yale University Occupation Historian **Lawrence Goldman** [FRHistS](/source/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Historical_Society) (born 17 June 1957) is an English historian and academic. He is the former director the *[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography](/source/Oxford_Dictionary_of_National_Biography)* (2004 to 2014) and of the [Institute of Historical Research](/source/Institute_of_Historical_Research) (2014 to 2017), University of London. He has a PhD from the [University of Cambridge](/source/University_of_Cambridge). ## Biography Born in London, he read history at [Jesus College, Cambridge](/source/Jesus_College%2C_Cambridge) (1976–79), as an undergraduate. Upon graduation he received a [Harkness Fellowship](/source/Harkness_Fellowship), which enabled him to study history of slavery and [American Civil War](/source/American_Civil_War) at [Yale University](/source/Yale_University) for a year with Ed Morgan, [David Montgomery](/source/David_Montgomery_(historian)) and [David Brion Davis](/source/David_Brion_Davis).[1][2] 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](/source/Trinity_College%2C_Cambridge). In 1985, he moved to [Oxford](/source/University_of_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](/source/Workers'_Educational_Association). In 1990, he was appointed to a Fellowship at [St Peter's College](/source/St_Peter's_College%2C_Oxford), where he has also served as admissions tutor and senior dean.[3] 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[4] of the *[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography](/source/Oxford_Dictionary_of_National_Biography)*, published by [Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press), succeeding [Brian Harrison](/source/Brian_Harrison_(historian)). The appointment was for ten years. Goldman was the director of the [University of London](/source/University_of_London)'s [Institute of Historical Research](/source/Institute_of_Historical_Research) from 2014[4] to 2017. ## Selected bibliography ### Author - Goldman, Lawrence (1995). [*Dons and Workers: Oxford and Adult Education Since 1850*](http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198205753.001.0001/acprof-9780198205753). Oxford: [Clarendon Press](/source/Clarendon_Press). [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198205753.001.0001](https://doi.org/10.1093%2Facprof%3Aoso%2F9780198205753.001.0001). [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0198205753](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0198205753).{{[cite book](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_book)}}: CS1 maint: publisher location ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_publisher_location)) - "Exceptionalism and Internationalism: The Origins of American Social Science Reconsidered", *[The Journal of Historical Sociology](/source/The_Journal_of_Historical_Sociology)* Vol. 11, 1 (1998) pp. 1–36 - Goldman, Lawrence (2000). "Intellectuals and the English Working Class 1870–1945: The case of adult education". *[History of Education](/source/History_of_Education_Quarterly)*. **29** (4): 281–300. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1080/00467600050044662](https://doi.org/10.1080%2F00467600050044662). [S2CID](/source/S2CID_(identifier)) [144749564](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID: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](/source/J._M._Ludlow), [Lujo Brentano](/source/Lujo_Brentano) and the Labour Question", in *Civil Society in British History: Ideas, Identities, Institutions*, ed. [Jose Harris](/source/Jose_Harris) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003) pp. 97–113 - *From art to politics: [John Ruskin](/source/John_Ruskin) and [William Morris](/source/William_Morris)* (London: [William Morris Society](/source/William_Morris_Society), 2005) ### Editor - *The blind Victorian: Henry Fawcett and British liberalism* (Cambridge: [Cambridge University Press](/source/Cambridge_University_Press), 1989) - (With [Peter Ghosh](/source/Peter_Ghosh)) *Politics and culture in Victorian Britain: essays in memory of [Colin Matthew](/source/Colin_Matthew)* (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006) ### Articles in *Oxford Dictionary of National Biography* - Sir [Walter Frederick Crofton](/source/Walter_Frederick_Crofton) (1815–1897) - [Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother](/source/Queen_Elizabeth_the_Queen_Mother) (1900–2002) - [Henry Fawcett](/source/Henry_Fawcett) (1833–1884) - [George Woodyatt Hastings](/source/George_Woodyatt_Hastings) (1825–1917) - Sir [John Arthur Ransome Marriott](/source/John_Arthur_Ransome_Marriott) (1859–1945) - [Richard Henry Tawney](/source/Richard_Henry_Tawney), (1880–1962) ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [Introducing the new Director of the IHR](https://web.archive.org/web/20171213231504/https://blog.history.ac.uk/2014/10/introducing-the-new-director-of-the-ihr/), 9 October 2014 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** [Interview with Professor Lawrence Goldman](https://talkinghumanities.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2016/02/02/interview-with-professor-lawrence-goldman/), *Talking Humanities*, 2 February 2016 1. **[^](#cite_ref-spc_3-0)** ["People: Dr Lawrence Goldman"](https://web.archive.org/web/20171213230411/https://www.spc.ox.ac.uk/whos-here/academic/prof-lawrence-goldman). St Peter's College, Oxford. Archived from the original on 13 December 2017. Retrieved 9 January 2011.{{[cite web](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_web)}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_bot:_original_URL_status_unknown)) 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-:0_4-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-:0_4-1) ["Institute of Historical Research announces new Director"](https://web.archive.org/web/20221008024044/https://www.sas.ac.uk/about-us/news/institute-historical-research-announces-new-director). *School of Advanced Study*. University of London. 2 April 2014. Archived from [the original](https://www.sas.ac.uk/about-us/news/institute-historical-research-announces-new-director) on 8 October 2022 – via Internet Archive. Preceded by Professor Brian Harrison Editor, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2004–2014 Succeeded by Sir David Cannadine Preceded by Professor Miles Taylor Director, Institute of Historical Research 2014–2017 Succeeded by Professor Jo Fox Authority control databases International ISNI VIAF GND FAST WorldCat National United States France BnF data Italy Czech Republic Netherlands Israel Belgium Other IdRef Yale LUX --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Lawrence Goldman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Goldman) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Goldman?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.