Martyn Rady is Professor of Central European History at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies

School of Slavonic and East European Studies

The UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies is a school of University College London . It is the largest centre for the study and research of Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, and Russia in the United Kingdom...

 (SSEES), University College London

University College London

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. He was from 1995 to 2009 Warden of Hughes Parry Hall  , an intercollegiate hall of the University of London

University of London

-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...

. After leaving Hughes Parry he moved to Ramsgate

Ramsgate

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, Kent

Kent

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Career

While a teacher at Mill Hill School

Mill Hill School

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 in the 1980s Rady wrote several books for sixth-formers, including Emperor Charles V

Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

Charles V was ruler of the Holy Roman Empire from 1519 and, as Charles I, of the Spanish Empire from 1516 until his voluntary retirement and abdication in favor of his younger brother Ferdinand I and his son Philip II in 1556.As...

 (Longman, 1987). He moved to SSEES in 1990, where he had previously completed his PhD, publishing books and articles primarily on the history of Romania

Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

 and Hungary

Hungary

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. His principal interest is Hungarian legal history and the translation of texts, most recently of the Gesta Hungarorum

Gesta Hungarorum

Gesta Hungarorum is a record of early Hungarian history by an unknown author who describes himself as Anonymi Bele Regis Notarii , but is generally cited as Anonymus...

. In 1996, he was elected chair of SSEES Academic Assembly. Between 2003 and 2008 he was Head of the History Department at SSEES, after which he was succeeded by Rebecca Haynes. In 2004 he was made an Honorary Life Member of the Modern Humanities Research Association

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Publications

Rady's publications include:

• Medieval Buda: A Study of Municipal Government and Jurisdiction in the Kingdom of Hungary (East European Monographs, 1985).
• Emperor Charles V (Longman, 1988)
• Romania in Turmoil: A Contemporary History (IB Tauris, 1992)
• (ed. with Peter J.S. Duncan) Towards a New Community: Culture and Politics in Post- Totalitarian Europe (SSEES and LitVerlag, 1993)
• (joint author) Cultural Atlas of the Renaissance (Prentice-Hall/Time-Life, 1993)
• Nobility, Land and Service in Medieval Hungary (Palgrave, 2000)
• (ed. with László Péter
  László Péter
  László Péter, , was Emeritus Professor of Hungarian History at the University of London. He completed his first degree at the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest after which he worked as an archivist and teacher. He left Hungary in 1956, subsequently completing a DPhil in Oxford under the...
  
   and P. Sherwood) Lajos Kossuth Sent Word...' Papers delivered on the occasion of the bicentenary of Kossuth's Birth (SSEES, 2003)
• (ed.) Custom and Law in Central Europe (Cambridge Centre for European Law, 2003)
• (ed. with László Péter
  László Péter
  László Péter, , was Emeritus Professor of Hungarian History at the University of London. He completed his first degree at the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest after which he worked as an archivist and teacher. He left Hungary in 1956, subsequently completing a DPhil in Oxford under the...
  
  ) British-Hungarian Relations Since 1848 (SSEES, 2004)
• (ed. & trans with J. Bak and P. Banyo): Werbőczy, The Customary Law of the Renowned Kingdom of Hungary: A Work in Three Parts (the Tripartitum) (CEU and Schlacks, Budapest and Idyllwild, 2005).
• (ed. with László Péter
  László Péter
  László Péter, , was Emeritus Professor of Hungarian History at the University of London. He completed his first degree at the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest after which he worked as an archivist and teacher. He left Hungary in 1956, subsequently completing a DPhil in Oxford under the...
  
  ): Resistance, Rebellion and Revolution in Hungary and Central Europe: Commemorating 1956, London, 2008.