Peter Ghosh
British historian (born 1954)
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Peter R. Ghosh (/ɡəʊʃ/; gauche;[1] born December 1954, Sutton Coldfield) is a British historian, specialising in the history of ideas and historiography.[2] He was Jean Duffield Fellow in Modern History at St Anne's College, Oxford, and Professor of the History of Ideas at the Faculty of History, University of Oxford.[3]
1954 (age 71–72)
Peter Ghosh | |
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| Born | Peter R. Ghosh 1954 (age 71–72) |
| Occupations | Historian and academic |
| Title | Professor of the History of Ideas |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 2 |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Merton College, Oxford Nuffield College, Oxford |
| Doctoral advisor | A. F. Thompson |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
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| Institutions | Nuffield College, Oxford St Anne's College, Oxford |
Career
Ghosh read Modern History at Merton College, Oxford as an undergraduate and continued his studies at graduate level at Nuffield College, Oxford, later becoming a Junior Research Fellow there.[4] His abandoned doctoral thesis on Victorian finance was supervised by A. F. Thompson.[5]
Ghosh was Jean Duffield Fellow in Modern History at St Anne's College, Oxford from 1982 to his retirement in 2023.[2] In January 2022 he was awarded the Title of Distinction of Professor of the History of Ideas by the University of Oxford.[6]
After retiring he became a Senior Research Fellow at St Anne's College[7] and continued to teach modern history at Jesus College.[4]
He has two related research interests: first, the interface between political ideas and English politics, c. 1850 – 1895; secondly, the evolution of Western European and British ideas, including historiography, from the Enlightenment to the present.[8]
He has written for the London Review of Books[9] and appeared on In Our Time discussing Max Weber.[10] He also sits on the international advisory board of the journal History of European Ideas.[11]
Personal life
Ghosh married Helen Kirkby, whom he met as a fellow History undergraduate at Oxford, in 1979.[12] They have two children together.[13] Their son William is an English tutor at Christ Church, Oxford.[14]
Works
- Politics and Culture in Victorian Britain: Essays in Memory of Colin Matthew (2006)
- A Historian Reads Max Weber: Essays on the Protestant Ethic (2008)
- Max Weber and 'The Protestant Ethic': Twin Histories (2014)
- Max Weber in Context: Essays in the History of German Ideas C. 1870–1930 (2016)