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Professor Peter Slee is an academic from the North East of England.

He was raised in Consett and gained a BA in History from the University of Reading before receiving his PhD in Modern History at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. His book, Learning and a Liberal Education: The Study of Modern History in the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Manchester, 1800–1914, was published by Manchester University Press in 1986.

He became the Vice Chancellor of Leeds Beckett University in 2015 and was made an Honorary Fellow of Emmanuel College in 2016.