Lawrence Goldman

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

Biography
Born in London, he read history at Jesus College, Cambridge (1976–1979), as an undergraduate. Upon graduation he received a Harkness Fellowship, which enabled him to study history of slavery and American Civil War at Yale University for a year with Ed Morgan, David Montgomery and David Brion Davis. 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. In 1985, he moved to 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. In 1990, he was appointed to a Fellowship at St Peter's College, where he has also served as admissions tutor and senior dean.

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 of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, published by Oxford University Press, succeeding Brian Harrison. The appointment was for ten years.

Goldman was the director of the University of London's Institute of Historical Research from 2014 to 2017.

Author

 * "Exceptionalism and Internationalism: The Origins of American Social Science Reconsidered", The Journal of Historical Sociology Vol. 11, 1 (1998) pp. 1–36
 * "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, Lujo Brentano and the Labour Question", in Civil Society in British History: Ideas, Identities, Institutions, ed. Jose Harris (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003) pp. 97–113
 * From art to politics: John Ruskin and William Morris (London: William Morris Society, 2005)
 * "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, ed. Jose Harris (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003) pp. 97–113
 * From art to politics: John Ruskin and William Morris (London: William Morris Society, 2005)

Editor

 * The blind Victorian: Henry Fawcett and British liberalism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989)
 * (With Peter Ghosh) Politics and culture in Victorian Britain: essays in memory of Colin Matthew (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006)

Articles in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

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