Peter Mandler is an historian at the 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 focuses on 19th and 20th century British history, particularly cultural history and the history of the social sciences. He is also a member of the Cambridge Victorian Studies Group.

After attending Magdalen College, Oxford

Magdalen College, Oxford

Magdalen College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. As of 2006 the college had an estimated financial endowment of £153 million. Magdalen is currently top of the Norrington Table after over half of its 2010 finalists received first-class degrees, a record...

 as an undergraduate, Mandler did his PhD at Harvard

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

 where he wrote a dissertation entitled Liberalism and Paternalism: The Whig Aristocracy and the Condition of England, 1830-1852. Before joining the history faculty at Cambridge, he worked at Princeton

Princeton University

Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

 and London Guildhall University

London Guildhall University

London Guildhall University was a university in the United Kingdom from 1992 to 2002. On 1 August 2002, it merged with the University of North London to form London Metropolitan University...

.

Mandler supports popular, public history as expressed by Simon Schama

Simon Schama

Simon Michael Schama, CBE is a British historian and art historian. He is a University Professor of History and Art History at Columbia University. He is best known for writing and hosting the 15-part BBC documentary series A History of Britain...

, Linda Colley

Linda Colley

Linda Colley, CBE, FBA, FRSL, FRHistS is a historian of Britain, empire and nationalism. She is Shelby M. C. Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton University in the United States.-Early life and education:...

 and Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson

Niall Campbell Douglas Ferguson is a British historian. His specialty is financial and economic history, particularly hyperinflation and the bond markets, as well as the history of colonialism.....

 over the narrow, specialist study of the discipline. He occasionally makes television and radio appearances himself.

He is currently working on a book about the anthropologist Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead was an American cultural anthropologist, who was frequently a featured writer and speaker in the mass media throughout the 1960s and 1970s....

 and anthropology's move from the study of "simple, primitive" to "complex, modern" culture.

Works

• The English National Character: The History of an Idea from Edmund Burke to Tony Blair (2006)
• Liberty and Authority in Victorian Britain (ed., 2006)
• History and National Life (2002)
• The Fall and Rise of the Stately Home (1997)
• After the Victorians: Private Conscience and Public Duty in Modern Britain (ed., with Susan Pedersen
  Susan Pedersen (historian)
  Susan Pedersen is a historian, and James P. Shenton Professor of the Core Curriculum at Columbia University. Pedersen focuses on 19th and 20th century British history, women's history, settler colonialism, and the history of international institutions.-Life:...
  
  , 1994)
• The Uses of Charity: The Poor on Relief in the 19th-Century Metropolis (ed., 1990)
• Aristocratic Government in the Age of Reform (1990)

External links

• University of Cambridge faculty page
• Review of Mandler's book The English National Character, from the Guardian
• Review of History and National Life at the Institute of Historical Research
• Article on The English National Character in the New York Sun