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Lawrence Goldman FRHistS
Goldman at the IHR London, February 2016
Born	(1957-06-17)17 June 1957 (age 68) London, England
Alma mater	Jesus College, Cambridge Yale University
Occupation	Historian

Lawrence GoldmanFRHistS (born 17 June 1957) is an English historian and academic. He is the former director theOxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004 to 2014) and of theInstitute of Historical Research (2014 to 2017), University of London. He has a PhD from theUniversity of Cambridge.

Born in London, he read history atJesus College, Cambridge (1976–79), as an undergraduate. Upon graduation he received aHarkness Fellowship, which enabled him to study history of slavery andAmerican Civil War atYale University for a year with Ed Morgan,David Montgomery andDavid 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 atTrinity College. In 1985, he moved toOxford 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 theWorkers' Educational Association. In 1990, he was appointed to a Fellowship atSt Peter's College, 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 theOxford Dictionary of National Biography, published byOxford University Press, succeedingBrian Harrison. The appointment was for ten years.

Goldman was the director of theUniversity of London'sInstitute of Historical Research from 2014^[4] to 2017.

• Goldman, Lawrence (1995).Dons and Workers: Oxford and Adult Education Since 1850. Oxford:Clarendon Press.doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198205753.001.0001.ISBN 978-0198205753.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)
• "Exceptionalism and Internationalism: The Origins of American Social Science Reconsidered",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.29 (4):281–300.doi:10.1080/00467600050044662.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", inArticulating 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", inCivil Society in British History: Ideas, Identities, Institutions, ed. Jose Harris (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003) pp. 97–113
• From art to politics:John Ruskin andWilliam Morris (London:William Morris Society, 2005)

• The blind Victorian: Henry Fawcett and British liberalism (Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 1989)
• (WithPeter Ghosh)Politics and culture in Victorian Britain: essays in memory ofColin Matthew (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006)

• SirWalter Frederick Crofton (1815–1897)
• Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (1900–2002)
• Henry Fawcett (1833–1884)
• George Woodyatt Hastings (1825–1917)
• SirJohn Arthur Ransome Marriott (1859–1945)
• Richard Henry Tawney, (1880–1962)

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