David Reeder (May 5, 1931 – August 1, 2005) was a British historian at the University of Leicester. After graduating from Nunthorpe Grammar School he won a scholarship at the

University of Durham Durham University (legally the University of Durham) is a collegiate university, collegiate public university, public research university in Durham, England, Durham, England, founded by an Act of Parliament in 1832 and incorporated by royal charte ...

, where he served as Editor of Palatinate. He was a member of Hatfield College, where he was Captain of Table Tennis in 1950. Reeder took his PhD at the

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. He pursued a career in urban history and the history of education, co-founding the Urban History Group and editing the Urban History Yearbook for nine years.

Publications

* ''The Victorian City: Images and Realities'' (1973) * ''Urban Education In The Nineteenth Century'' (1977) * ''Educating Our Masters'' (1980)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Reeder, David 1931 births 2005 deaths Alumni of Hatfield College, Durham Alumni of the University of Leicester 20th-century British historians