Anthony C. Howe is an English historian and Professor of Modern History at the

University of East Anglia The University of East Anglia (UEA) is a public research university in Norwich, England. Established in 1963 on a campus west of the city centre, the university has four faculties and 26 schools of study. The annual income of the institution f ...

, a post he has held since 2003. He has previously taught at the Department of International History at the

London School of Economics , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 millio ...

and Modern History at

Oriel College, Oxford Oriel College () is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in Oxford, England. Located in Oriel Square, the college has the distinction of being the oldest royal foundation in Oxford (a title formerly claimed by University College, wh ...

. Howe was educated at

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Wadham College, Oxford Wadham College () is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. It is located in the centre of Oxford, at the intersection of Broad Street and Parks Road. Wadham College was founded in 1610 by Dorothy W ...

and was a postgraduate student at

Nuffield College, Oxford Nuffield College () is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. It is a graduate college and specialises in the social sciences, particularly economics, politics and sociology. Nuffield is one of Oxford's newer co ...

. He is the editor of The Cobden Project, a four-volume set of annotated letters of the nineteenth century British politician

Richard Cobden Richard Cobden (3 June 1804 – 2 April 1865) was an English Radical and Liberal politician, manufacturer, and a campaigner for free trade and peace. He was associated with the Anti-Corn Law League and the Cobden–Chevalier Treaty. As a young ...

, published by Oxford University Press.

Works

*''The Cotton Masters, 1830-1860'' (Oxford, 1984). *‘Towards the ‘hungry forties’: free trade in Britain, ''c''. 1880-1906’, in Eugenio Biagini (ed.), ''Citizenship and Community. Liberals, Radicals and Collective Identities in the British Isles. 1865-1931'' (Cambridge, 1996), pp. 193–218. *''Free Trade and Liberal England, 1846-1946'' (Oxford, 1997). *‘Re-Forging Britons: Richard Cobden and France’, in S. Aprile & F. Bensimon (eds.), ''La France et L'Angleterre an XIXe siècle'' (Paris, 2006), pp. 89–104 *‘Two Faces of British Power: Cobden versus Palmerston’, in David Brown and Miles Taylor (eds.), ''Palmerston Studies II'' (Southampton, 2007), pp. 168–92 *‘Free Trade and Global Order’, in Duncan Bell (ed.), ''Victorian Visions of Global Order'' (Cambridge, 2007), pp. 26–46. *''The Letters of Richard Cobden: Volume I: 1815-1847'' (Oxford, 2007). *''The Letters of Richard Cobden: Volume II: 1848-1853'' (Oxford, 2010). *''The Letters of Richard Cobden: Volume III: 1854-1859'' (Oxford, 2012). *''The Letters of Richard Cobden: Volume IV: 1860-1865'' (Oxford, 2015). *‘British Liberalism and the Legacy of Saint-Simon: The Case of Richard Cobden’, ''History of Economic Ideas'' (forthcoming).

External links

University of East Anglia staff profile.

Notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Howe, Anthony Living people English historians Alumni of Wadham College, Oxford Alumni of Nuffield College, Oxford Academics of the University of East Anglia Year of birth missing (living people)