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<p>David Vincent’s research interests cover working-class autobiography, British
and European Literacy, and the cultural and political histories of secrecy, privacy
and solitude. He is the author or editor of seventeen books including, <em>Bread
Knowledge and Freedom. A Study of Nineteenth Century Working Class Autobiography </em>(Europa
1979, Methuen 1982);<em>The Autobiography of the Working Class</em>[with John Burnet
and David Mayall], 3 vols (Harvester 1984, 1987, 1989);<em> Literacy and Popular
Culture. England 1750-1914</em>(Cambridge University Press 1989, 1993);<em> The
Culture of </em>Secrecy<em>: Britain 1832-1998</em>(Oxford University Press 1998); <em>The
Rise of Mass Literacy. Reading and Writing in Modern Europe </em>(Polity Press,
2000). </p><p>His most recent books are:<em>I hope I Don’t Intrude.</em> <em>Privacy
and its Dilemmas in Nineteenth-Century Britain</em> (Oxford University Press,
2015) and<em>Privacy. A Short History</em>(Polity Press, Cambridge, 2016). His
chapter on‘Working Class Autobiography’ was published in Adam Smyth (ed.)<em>A
History of English Autobiography </em>(Cambridge University Press, 2016) and a
chapter on‘Social Reform’ was published in The<em>Oxford Handbook
of Charles Dickens (</em>Oxford University Press, 2018<em>).</em> He has in press‘The
Modern History of Literacy’ in<em>The Oxford Handbook of the History of Education,</em>edited
by John L. Rury and Eileen H. Tamura (Oxford University Press)<em>. </em>He has
written on the historical context of the current controversies over government surveillance,
including‘Surveillance, Privacy and History’, <em>History and Policy</em> October
2013. <a href="http://www.historyandpolicy.org/papers/policy-paper-151.html"
rel="nofollow" title="Surveillance, Privacy and History">Read this online</a>, and
has recently given papers on‘Privacy and the Liberal State’ and on the
draft Investigatory Powers Bill for the Technology and Democracy Project at CRASSH,
Cambridge. </p><p>His next major book, <em>Solitude. A History </em>will be
published by Polity Press in 2019. </p> |
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<p>David Vincent was an undergraduate at the University of York and gained a PhD at
Sidney Sussex College Cambridge. He became Lecturer in History at Keele University
in 1974, leaving as Professor of Social History and Deputy Vice Chancellor in 2003
to take up the post of Pro Vice Chancellor (Strategy and External Affairs) at the
Open University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal
Society of Arts. Now Emeritus Professor in History, he was a full-time member
of the History Department between 2010 and 2014. He was a Visiting Fellow of
Kellogg College, Oxford 2004-11, and of Wolfson College, Cambridge, Michaelmas Term
2015. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Research in the Arts,
Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge, 2015-2017.
He is an Honorary Professor of History, Keele University, 2015-.</p> |
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<p>David Vincent was an undergraduate at the University of York and gained a PhD at
Sidney Sussex College Cambridge. He became Lecturer in History at Keele University
in 1974, leaving as Professor of Social History and Deputy Vice Chancellor in 2003
to take up the post of Pro Vice Chancellor (Strategy and External Affairs) at the
Open University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal
Society of Arts. Now Emeritus Professor in History, he was a full-time member
of the History Department between 2010 and 2014. He was a Visiting Fellow of
Kellogg College, Oxford 2004-11, and of Wolfson College, Cambridge, Michaelmas Term
2015. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Research in the Arts,
Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge, 2015-2017.
He is an Honorary Professor of History, Keele University, 2015-.</p> |
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