Faculty Postholders
Dr Lawrence Goldman
MA, PhD (Cambridge)
Lecturer (CUF) in Modern History
Email: lawrence.goldman@spc.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests
Dr Goldman has published on the political and intellectual history of Britain and the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has particular interests in labour history and the history of social science. As from 1 October 2004 he will be Editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Supervision Interests
I have experience supervising theses at all levels in the history of Britain and the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Selected Publications:
- Dons and workers: Oxford and adult education since 1850. (Oxford, 1995) 363pp.
- 'Exceptionalism and Internationalism: The Origins of American Social Science Reconsidered', The Journal of Historical Sociology. Vol 11, 1 (1998) pp. 1-36
- 'John Ruskin, Oxford and the British Labour Movement 1880-1914' in Ruskin and the Dawn of the Modern. (Oxford, 1999) pp. 57-86
- 'Intellectuals and the English Working Class 1870-1945: The case of adult education', History of Education. Vol 29, 4 (1999) pp. 281-300
- '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. (Lanham, Maryland, 2001) pp. 177-233
- Science, Reform, and Politics in Victorian Britain: The Social Science Association 1857-1886. (Cambridge, 2002) 430pp.
- 'Sir Walter Crofton (vol.14, 253-5) Henry Fawcett (vol.19,167-71) George W. Hastings (vol. 25, 751-2) Sir John Arthur Ransome Marriott (vol. 36, 762-3) R. H. Tawney (vol. 53, 844-50) Queen Elizabeth the queen mother, ODNB online, Jan. 2006 ' in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford, 2004)
- 'Oxford and the Idea of a University in Nineteenth Century Britain', Oxford Review of Education. Vol 30, 4 (2004) pp. 575-92
- '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. (Oxford, 2005) pp. 97-113
- 'Victorian Social Science: From Singular to Plural' in The Organisation of Knowledge in Victorian Britain. (Oxford, 2005) pp. 87-114
- Catalogue of the Published Papers of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science URL: http:napss.modhist.ox.ac.uk. (Oxford, 2005)
- 'University Reform and the Idea of a University in Victorian Britain', Reviews in Higher Education (Research Institute for Higher Education, Hiroshima University, Japan). Vol 84 (2005) pp. 19-31
- 'From Art to Politics: John Ruskin and William Morris ' in Published lecture - The Kelmscott Lecture, 2000. (London, 2005) pp. 32
- 'University Reform and the Idea of a University in Victorian Britain ', The Idea of a University in Historical Perspective Germany, Britain, USA, and Japan . Vol November (2005) pp. 19-32
- 'The Kelmscott Lecture 2000' in From Ruskin and William Morris . (London , 2005) pp. 32
- (ed.) Politics and Culture in Victorian Britain Essays in Memory of Colin Matthew . (Oxford, 2006) 267pp.
- (ed.) Politics and Culture in Victorian Britain. Essays in Memory of Colin Matthew . (Oxford, 2006) 1-7, 118-135pp.
- 'A Monument to the Victorian Age? Continuity and Discontiuity in the Dictionaries of National Biography 1882-2004', Journal of Victorian Culture. Vol 11.1 (2006) pp. 111-132
Future Publications:
- 'Conservative Political Thought from the Revolutions of 1848 until the Fin de Siecle' in Cambridge History of Political Thought IV: The Nineteenth Century. (Cambridge, 2006)
- 'The Federalist Papers (Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison)' in . (Oxford, 2007)
- 'Virtual Lives: History and Biography in an Electronic Age ', The Seymour Lecture in Biography 2007. Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University. (2007)
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