Background
He was born in Paddington, London in 1945, the child of Irish rural immigrants.
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Education
He was educated in a West London secondary modern school, and worked after leaving school early, before studying history and English literature at the University of Keele.
Career
He is also known for his theoretical work on the nature of history, especially on the relationship between history and the social sciences. Although his work has concentrated on Britain, its influence has registered worldwide, not only in Britain and North America. He did his graduate work in history at Balliol College Oxford.
He is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Manchester, and has been appointed to numerous visiting professorships in history and sociology, including at the University of California, Berkeley and San Diego.
The London School of Economics. And the European University Institute in Florence.
Politics
While his research has ranged widely from the politics of class in Victorian England to the formation of the modern self, it has always shown a preoccupation with liberalism, governance and the nature of freedom. The Rule of Freedom: Liberalism and the Modern City (Verso, 2003), translated into Greek and Chinese editions. Work, Society and Politics: The Culture of the Factory in Later Victorian England (Harvester Press, Brighton, 1980).
“A Post-modern Historian: Interview with Patrick Joyce”, Historiography Quarterly, 2:2003 (University of Shanghai Press, in Chinese).
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“The return of history: postmodernism and the politics of academic history in Britain”, Past and Present, no 158, February 1998 207-235.
