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{{short description|British historian and academic (born 1937)}}{{Other uses|Brian Harrison (disambiguation)}}{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}Sir Brian Howard Harrison {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FBA}} (born 9 July 1937) is a British historian and academic. From 1996 to 2004, he was professor of modern history at the University of Oxford. From 2000 to 2004, he was also the editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

Academic career

Harrison was professor of modern history at the University of Oxford from 1996 to 2004. He was additionally the editor of Oxford Dictionary of National Biography from January 2000 to September 2004. Since 2004, he has been an emeritus fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.Harrison has published extensively on British social and political history from the 1790s to the present. His first book was Drink and the Victorians. The Temperance Question England 1815–1872, based on his doctoral thesis entitled The temperance question in England, 1829–1869.THESIS, The temperance question in England, 1829-1869,weblink University of Oxford, 1965, PhD, English, B., Harrison, His most recent publications are two volumes in the [New Oxford History of England] series covering British history from 1951.National Life Stories conducted an oral history interview (C1149/24) with Harrison in 2012 for its Oral History of Oral History collection held by the British Library.National Life Stories, 'Harrison, Brian (1 of 25) National Life Stories Collection: Oral History of Oral History', The British Library Board, 2012. Retrieved 9 October 2017 Harrison also did a video intervi with the Cambridge historian and social anthropologist Alan Macfarlane in 2012,WEB, Video & Audio: Brian Harrison - Metadata,weblink 2023-12-24, sms.cam.ac.uk, WEB, Video & Audio: Brian Harrison's Indexing System - Metadata,weblink 2023-12-24, sms.cam.ac.uk, which was also published in prose format. in Radha Beteille (ed,) From Antiquity to Ethnography. Keith Thomas, Brian Harrison and Peter Burke in conversation with Alan Macfarlane (Routledge, 2022), pp.60-121.Between 1974 and 1981 Harrison conducted a series of oral history interviews with surviving suffrage campaigners, their relatives and employees, known as The Suffrage Interviews, or Oral evidence on the suffragette and suffragist movements: the Brian Harrison interviews.WEB, Murphy, Gillian, The Suffrage Interviews,weblink 17 November 2023, The London School of Economics and Political Science, The recordings were deposited with The Women's Library in 1981, and are now available online via The British Library of Political and Economic Science. The Library is working on a Wikidata project, (wikidata:Wikidata:WikiProject_LSESuffrageInterviewsProject|WikiProject LSESuffrageInterviewsProject), which seeks to explore connections between individuals and organizations mentioned within the collection, and make the resource accessible to researchers in new ways.

Honours

Harrison was appointed Knight Bachelor in the 2005 New Year Honours for "services to scholarship". He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) on 30 July 2005.WEB, HARRISON, Professor Sir Brian,weblink British Academy Fellows, British Academy, 5 September 2015, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160114040420weblink">weblink 14 January 2016, He is also an elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS).WEB, Fellows - H,weblinkweblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160304222436weblink">weblink dead, 2016-03-04, Royal Historical Society, 5 September 2015, October 2014,

Publications

• Seeking a Role: The United Kingdom 1951–1970 (2009, paperback with revisions 2011)
• Finding a Role? The United Kingdom 1970–1990 (2010, paperback with revisions 2011)
• Reform and its Complexities in Modern Britain. Essays Inspired by Sir Brian Harrison' (Eds. Bruce Kinzer, Molly Kramer and Richard Trainor), Oxford University Press 2022, pp. 281–5
• From Antiquity to Ethnography. Keith Thomas, Brian Harrison and Peter Burke in conversation with Alan Macfarlane (Ed Radha Beteille), Routledge, 2022, pp.60-121

References

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External links

• WEB, The British Academy, 2005,weblink British Academy Fellows Archive, 22 December 2005, {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}
• WEB, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2017,weblink Editors, 26 April 2017,
• Interviewed by Alan Macfarlane 22 June 2012 (video)
• The Sufferage Interviews

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