Lawrence Goldman is an historian and current editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. He has an M.A. from the University of Oxford

University of Oxford

The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...

 and a M.A. and PhD. from University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...

. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Born in London, he read history at Jesus College, Cambridge

Jesus College, Cambridge

Jesus College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.The College was founded in 1496 on the site of a Benedictine nunnery by John Alcock, then Bishop of Ely...

 (1976–79) and received a Harkness Fellowship

Harkness Fellowship

The Harkness Fellowships are a programme run by the Commonwealth Fund of New York City. They were established to reciprocate the Rhodes Scholarships and enable Fellows from several countries to spend time studying in the United States...

 which enabled him to study American history at Yale University

Yale University

Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

. 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

Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Trinity has more members than any other college in Cambridge or Oxford, with around 700 undergraduates, 430 graduates, and over 170 Fellows...

. In 1985, he moved to Oxford

University of Oxford

The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...

 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

Workers' Educational Association

The Workers’ Educational Association seeks to provide access to education and lifelong learning for adults from all backgrounds, and in particular those who have previously missed out on education. The International Federation of Workers Education Associations has consultative status to UNESCO...

. In 1990, he was appointed to a Fellowship at St Peter's College

St Peter's College, Oxford

St Peter's College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, located in New Inn Hall Street. It occupies the site of two of the University's oldest Inns, or medieval hostels - Bishop Trellick's, later New Inn Hall, and Rose Hall - both of which were...

, 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 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 Biography, published by Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press

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, succeeding Brian Harrison

Brian Harrison (historian)

Professor Sir Brian Howard Harrison was the editor of Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, published by Oxford University Press, from January 2000 to September 2004 and Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford...

.

Author

• Dons and workers: Oxford and adult education since 1850 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995)
• "Exceptionalism and Internationalism: The Origins of American Social Science Reconsidered", The Journal of Historical Sociology Vol. 11, 1 (1998) pp. 1–36
• "John Ruskin
  John Ruskin
  John Ruskin was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, also an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects ranging from geology to architecture, myth to ornithology, literature to education, and botany to political...
  
  , Oxford and the British Labour Movement 1880-1914", in Ruskin and the Dawn of the Modern, ed. Dinah Birch (Oxford: Oxford University Press
  Oxford University Press
  Oxford University Press is the largest university press in the world. It is a department of the University of Oxford and is governed by a group of 15 academics appointed by the Vice-Chancellor known as the Delegates of the Press. They are headed by the Secretary to the Delegates, who serves as...
  
  , 1999) pp. 57–86
• "Intellectuals and the English Working Class 1870–1945: The case of adult education", History of Education Vol. 29, 4 (1999) pp. 281–300
• "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
• The Chore of Bringing up Alex and Jonathan 1986–2011 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002)
• "Civil Society in Nineteenth-century Britain and Germany: J. M. Ludlow, Lujo Brentano
  Lujo Brentano
  Lujo Brentano was an eminent German economist and social reformer.Lujo Brentano, born in Aschaffenburg into one of the most distinguished German-Catholic intellectual families , attended school in Augsburg and Aschaffenburg...
  
   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
  John Ruskin
  John Ruskin was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, also an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects ranging from geology to architecture, myth to ornithology, literature to education, and botany to political...
  
   and William Morris
  William Morris
  William Morris 24 March 18343 October 1896 was an English textile designer, artist, writer, and socialist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement...
  
  (London: William Morris Society, 2005)

Editor

• The blind Victorian: Henry Fawcett and British liberalism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
  Cambridge University Press
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  , 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

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