{{Short description|British history professor}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Olive Anderson''' (1927-2016) was professor of history at Westfield College, University of London.<ref>{{cite news|author=Harriet Anderson |url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/feb/24/olive-anderson-obituary |title=Olive Anderson obituary &#124; Education |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=2019-09-28}}</ref>

==Life== Anderson has been noted for her innovative approach to the writing of military history, which concentrated on the political, administrative, and cultural aspects of conflicts rather than strategy or tactics.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Rosemary Mitchell |title=Women in the ''English Historical Review'' |journal=The English Historical Review |article-number=cey395 |date=2018-12-10 |volume=139 |issue=596 |pages=e15–e30 |doi=10.1093/ehr/cey395 |doi-access=free}}</ref> In 2017, she featured in a conference, ''London's Women Historians'', held at the Institute of Historical Research.<ref>[https://archives.history.ac.uk/womenhistorians/ London's Women Historians.] Laura Carter & Alana Harris, Institute of Historical Research, 2017. Retrieved 28 September 2019.</ref>

==Selected publications== * "The Political uses of History in Mid Nineteenth-Century England", ''Past & Present'', Vol. 36, Issue 1 (April 1967), pp.&nbsp;87–105. https://doi.org/10.1093/past/36.1.87 * ''A Liberal State at War: English Politics and Economics during the Crimean War'' (1967) * "The Growth of Christian Militarism in mid-Victorian Britain", ''English Historical Review'', 1971. * ''Suicide in Victorian and Edwardian England'' (1987)<ref>{{cite journal|author=Institution login |title=Olive Anderson, Suicide in Victorian and Edwardian England, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1987, 8vo, pp. viii, 475, illus., £40.00. &#124; Medical History &#124; Cambridge Core |journal=Medical History |doi=10.1017/S0025727300047864 |publisher=Cambridge.org |date=2012-08-16 |volume=32 |issue=1 |pages=110–111 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author=Institution login |title=Olive Anderson. Suicide in Victorian and Edwardian England. Oxford and New York: The Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press. 1987. Pp. xiii, 475. $84.00. &#124; Albion &#124; Cambridge Core |journal=Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies |volume=20 |issue=4 |pages=662–664 |doi=10.2307/4050233 |publisher=Cambridge.org |date=2014-07-11 |jstor=4050233 }}</ref>

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