Paul Slack
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Paul Alexander Slack FBA
(born 23 January 1943) is a British historian. He is a former Principal of Linacre College, Oxford
, Pro-Vice-Chancellor
of the University of Oxford
, and Professor of Early Modern Social History in the University of Oxford
.
from 1973 until 1996. He served as Junior Proctor during the academic year 1986/7 and Chairman of the General Board 1995/6. On 1 October 1996 he took office as Principal of Linacre College
. He retired in September 2010. He was appointed Pro-Vice-Chancellor
in 1997, becoming in 2000 Pro-Vice-Chancellor
(Academic Services and University Collections). In 1999 he was appointed Professor of Early Modern Social History. He is also a member of the Environmental Change Institute Advisory Board and a former Chairman of the Curators of the University Libraries
.
Slack was elected a Fellow of the British Academy
in 1990.
Editor
Co-editor
British Academy
The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national body for the humanities and the social sciences. Its purpose is to inspire, recognise and support excellence in the humanities and social sciences, throughout the UK and internationally, and to champion their role and value.It receives an annual...
(born 23 January 1943) is a British historian. He is a former Principal of Linacre College, Oxford
Linacre College, Oxford
Linacre College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the UK, currently offering graduate entry only. It is located on St Cross Road at the corner of St Cross Road and South Parks Road, next to the University Parks and opposite the Tinbergen Building, which is shared by...
, Pro-Vice-Chancellor
Pro-Vice-Chancellor
In a university, an assistant to a vice-chancellor is called a pro-vice-chancellor . These are sometimes teaching academics who take on additional responsibilities. Some of these responsibilities are in charge of Administration, Research and Development, Academic and Education affairs...
of 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 Professor of Early Modern Social History in 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...
.
Life
He was a Fellow of Exeter College, OxfordExeter College, Oxford
Exeter College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England and the fourth oldest college of the University. The main entrance is on the east side of Turl Street...
from 1973 until 1996. He served as Junior Proctor during the academic year 1986/7 and Chairman of the General Board 1995/6. On 1 October 1996 he took office as Principal of Linacre College
Linacre College, Oxford
Linacre College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the UK, currently offering graduate entry only. It is located on St Cross Road at the corner of St Cross Road and South Parks Road, next to the University Parks and opposite the Tinbergen Building, which is shared by...
. He retired in September 2010. He was appointed Pro-Vice-Chancellor
Pro-Vice-Chancellor
In a university, an assistant to a vice-chancellor is called a pro-vice-chancellor . These are sometimes teaching academics who take on additional responsibilities. Some of these responsibilities are in charge of Administration, Research and Development, Academic and Education affairs...
in 1997, becoming in 2000 Pro-Vice-Chancellor
Pro-Vice-Chancellor
In a university, an assistant to a vice-chancellor is called a pro-vice-chancellor . These are sometimes teaching academics who take on additional responsibilities. Some of these responsibilities are in charge of Administration, Research and Development, Academic and Education affairs...
(Academic Services and University Collections). In 1999 he was appointed Professor of Early Modern Social History. He is also a member of the Environmental Change Institute Advisory Board and a former Chairman of the Curators of the University Libraries
Bodleian Library
The Bodleian Library , the main research library of the University of Oxford, is one of the oldest libraries in Europe, and in Britain is second in size only to the British Library...
.
Slack was elected a Fellow of the British Academy
British Academy
The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national body for the humanities and the social sciences. Its purpose is to inspire, recognise and support excellence in the humanities and social sciences, throughout the UK and internationally, and to champion their role and value.It receives an annual...
in 1990.
Publications
Author- Paul Slack, The English Poor Law, 1531-1782 (Basingstoke: Macmillan Education, 1990; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995)
- Paul Slack, From Reformation to improvement: public welfare in early modern England (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998; 1999)
- Paul Slack, The impact of plague in Tudor and Stuart England (London; Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985; reprinted with corrections, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985)
- Paul Slack, Poverty and policy in Tudor and Stuart England (London: Longman, 1988)
- Paul Slack, "Poverty and politics in Salisbury 1597-1666", in Peter Clark and Paul Slack, eds, Crisis and order in English towns, 1500-1700: essays in urban history (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul; Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1972), pp. 164-203
- Paul Slack: "Social Policy and the Constraints of Government, 1547–58", in Jennifer Loach and Robert Tittler, eds, The Mid-Tudor Polity c. 1540–1560 (London: Macmillan), pp. 94–115
- Paul Slack, The Traditional community under stress (Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1977)
Editor
- Paul Slack, ed., Environments and historical change (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999)
- Paul Slack, ed., Poverty in early-Stuart Salisbury (Devizes: Wiltshire Record Society, 1975)
- Paul Slack, ed., Rebellion, popular protest, and the social order in early modern England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984)
Co-editor
- Peter BurkePeter BurkePeter Burke is a British historian and professor.He was born to a Roman Catholic father and Jewish mother . He was educated by the Jesuits and at St John's College, Oxford, and was a doctoral candidate at St Antony's College...
, Brian Harrison, and Paul Slack, eds, Civil histories: essays presented to Sir Keith ThomasKeith Thomas (historian)Sir Keith Vivian Thomas is a Welsh historian, best known as the author of Religion and the Decline of Magic and Man and the Natural World.-Biography:...
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000) - Peter Clark and Paul Slack, eds, Crisis and order in English towns, 1500-1700: essays in urban history (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul; Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1972)
- Peter Clark and Paul Slack, English towns in transition 1500-1700 (London: Oxford University Press, 1976)
- Terence Ranger and Paul Slack, eds, Epidemics and ideas: essays on the historical perception of pestilence (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992)
- Julie Trottier and Paul Slack, eds, Managing water resources past and present (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004)
- Paul Slack and Ryk Ward, eds, The peopling of Britain: the shaping of a human landscape (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002)
- John MorrillJohn Morrill (historian)John Morrill FBA is a British historian. He specialises in the political, religious, social and cultural histories of early-modern Britain....
, Paul Slack, and Daniel Woolf, eds, Public duty and private conscience in seventeenth-century England: essays presented to G.E. Aylmer (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993)
External links
- 5th IT Support Staff Conference, University Museum, Keble College, and Computing Laboratory (University of Oxford) on Thursday, 29th June 2000: Who's Who?
- A state of singularitie, Oxford TodayOxford TodayOxford Today: The University Magazine is a magazine for the alumni of Oxford University.According to its website, the magazine is distributed free to around 150,000 alumni around the world and also by subscription. It appears three times a year, with the issues coinciding with the three Oxford...
14:3 (Trinity Term 2002) - Environmental Change Institute Advisory Board
- Oxford University Gazette (16 November 1995)
- British Academy Fellows Archive