Author - Lawrence Goldman

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In Praise and Thanks: The Real Sir Henry Wellcome and his legacy

29/11/2022

by Lawrence Goldman

The Wellcome Collection has cancelled itself and its founder. What has Sir Henry Wellcome done to...

Slavery • Featured • Institutions

Slavery and Antislavery in Cambridge

27/09/2022

by Lawrence Goldman

History Reclaimed has been established to counter ‘bad history’- history based on false...

Featured • People

We have been here before: ‘Rhodes Must Fall’ in historical...

10/02/2022

by Lawrence Goldman

As its title suggests, the essay below sets campaigns of removal and cancellation in a longer...

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Imperial College and Its History

05/12/2021

by Lawrence Goldman

The following submission to the History Group at Imperial College, London, is made by the History...

Lawrence Goldman

Lawrence Goldman is an English historian of Victorian Britain and nineteenth-century social thought. He read history at Jesus College, Cambridge, and taught for three decades at Oxford, where he was a Fellow of St Peter's College. He edited the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography from 2004 to 2014 and directed the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, from 2014 to 2017. His books include The Blind Victorian and Science, Reform and Politics in Victorian Britain.