Education
And Doctor of Philosophy from University of Cambridge.
And Doctor of Philosophy from University of Cambridge.
A former editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National, he has an Master of Arts from the University of Oxford and an Master of Arts He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Born in London, he read history at Jesus College, Cambridge (1976-1979) and received a Harkness Fellowship which enabled him to study American history at Yale University. 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 Street Peter"s College, where he has also served as admissions tutor and senior dean
During the academic year 2000-2001, 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 and recently chaired the first-ever review of the University archives.
On 1 October 2004, Lawrence Goldman was appointed editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National, published by Oxford University Press, succeeding Brian Harrison.
The appointment was for ten years. 1&2 (1999) pp. M. Articles in Oxford Dictionary of National.
"Exceptionalism and Internationalism: The Origins of American Social Science Reconsidered", The Journal of Historical Sociology Volume 11, 1 (1998) pp. 281–300
"Education as Politics: University Adult Education in England since 1870", Oxford Review of Education Volume 25, nos. 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, educated
The blind Victorian: Henry Fawcett and British liberalism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989).