Michael Anderson (historian)
Michael Anderson, OBE, FRSE, FBA (born 21 February 1942)[1] is an economic historian and retired academic. He was Professor of Economic History at the University of Edinburgh between 1979 and 2007.
Career
[edit]Born in 1942, Anderson attended Queens' College, Cambridge, graduating in 1964 and then completing a PhD five years later.[1] He joined the University of Edinburgh in 1967 as an assistant lecturer and was promoted to a full lectureship in 1969[1] and a readership in sociology in 1975. He was appointed Professor of Economic History in 1979, retiring in 2007.[2] He also served as Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Languages from 1985 to 1989, Vice-Principal from 1989 to 1990,[1] and Senior Vice-Principal from 2000 to 2007.[2] Outside of academia, he was chairman of the Board of Trustees of the National Library of Scotland from 2000 to 2012.[2]
Honours and awards
[edit]Anderson was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences) in 1989, and served on its council from 1995 to 1998.[2] In 1990, he was also elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.[3] He has received honorary doctorates from the University of Edinburgh (2007)[4] and the University of Leicester (2014),[5] and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1999 Birthday Honours "for services to educationalism".[6]
Publications
[edit]- Family Structure in Nineteenth Century Lancashire, Cambridge Studies in Sociology (Cambridge University Press, 1971).
- (Editor) Sociology of the Family: Selected Readings (Penguin, 1971).
- Approaches to the History of the Western Family 1500–1914, New Studies in Economic and Social History (Macmillan for the Economic History Society, 1981).
- The 1851 Census: A National Sample of the Enumerators Returns (Chadwyck-Healey, 1987).
- Population Change in Northwestern Europe 1750–1850 (Macmillan, 1988).
- (Edited with Frank Bechhofer and Jonathan Gershuny) The Social and Political Economy of the Household (Oxford University Press, 1995).
- (Editor) British Population History: From the Black Death to the Present Day (Cambridge University Press, 1996).
- Scotland’s Populations from the 1850s to Today (Oxford University Press, 2018).
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Anderson, Prof. Michael", Who's Who (online ed., Oxford University Press, December 2022). Retrieved 10 February 2023.
- ^ a b c d "Professor Michael Anderson FBA", The British Academy. Retrieved 11 September 2019.
- ^ "Professor Michael Anderson OBE FBA FRSE", Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 11 September 2019.
- ^ "Honorary graduates 2007/08", University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
- ^ "Graduating Ceremonies: July 2014: Professor Michael Anderson (Doctor of Letters)", University of Leicester. Retrieved 11 September 2019.
- ^ Supplement to the London Gazette, 12 June 1999 (issue 55513), p. 10.
