The Hon Edward David Joseph Lyon-Dalberg-Acton FRHistS

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 (born 4 February 1949) is a British academic and current Vice-Chancellor of the University of East Anglia

University of East Anglia

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Born in Zimbabwe

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, Acton is the 4th son of John Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, 3rd Baron Acton

John Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, 3rd Baron Acton

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. He was educated at St George's College, Harare

St George's College, Harare

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, the University of York

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 (BA) and at St Edmund's College, Cambridge

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 (PhD). He worked at the Bank of England

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, and then held academic posts at Liverpool

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 and Manchester

University of Manchester

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, before becoming Professor of Modern European History at the University of East Anglia

University of East Anglia

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 in 1991. He was appointed Dean of the School of History at UEA in 1999, and served as Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Academic) from 2004 until 2009, when he was appointed Vice-Chancellor. The Times Higher Education Supplement reported on 24 March 2011 that his salary was £200,000.

Publications

• Alexander Herzen and the Role of the Intellectual Revolutionary (1979)
• Rethinking the Russian Revolution (1990)
• Russia: the Tsarist and Soviet Legacy (1995)
• Critical Companion to the Russian Revolution 1914-21 (co-ed, 1997)
• The Soviet Union: A Documentary History (2 vols, 2005, 2007)