Geoffrey Joel Crossick

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(born 13 June 1946) is a British academic who is Professor of Humanities at the

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, a postgraduate school of the

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. He was

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from 2010 to 2012.

Early life

The son of Louis Crossick and Rebecca Naomi ''née'' Backen, Crossick was educated at

the Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School Haberdashers' Boys' School (also known as Haberdashers', Habs, or Habs Boys), until September 2021 known as Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, is a public school for pupils age 4 to 18 in Elstree, Hertfordshire, England. The school is a mem ...

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, before going to

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, where he read history, graduating as a BA in 1967. He then pursued further research historical at

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, where he took a PhD in 1976.

Career

Elected a Research Fellow in History at

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from 1970 to 1973, Crossick then became a Lecturer in Social History at the

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from 1973 to 1978. In 1979 he joined the

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becoming a

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then Professor of History from 1991 to 2002 before becoming Pro-Vice-Chancellor from 1997 to 2002. Crossick was Chief Executive of the

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from 2002 to 2005 and

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from 2005–10. He was

of the University of London from 2010 to 2012. According to ''The Times'', he said he would leave the part-time role in July 2012 because the workload was more onerous than he anticipated when deliberately scaling down from a full-time to a part-time position. The part-time role had an annual salary of £135,000. Crossick was Visiting Professor of the

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from 1990 to 1991. He has been a member of the Business and Community Strategy Committee, and later Enterprise and Skills Strategy Committee of the

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(HEFCE) from 2005 to 2012. He has been a board member of

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(UUK) from 2006 to 2012 and is Director of the

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's Cultural Value Project. In 2014 he was appointed Chairman of the Crafts Council. He was previously a Trustee of the

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, at

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. He was Director 2012–16 of the AHRC Cultural Value Project set up to identify the benefits of arts and culture to individuals and society and ways of evaluating and evidencing them: his report, ''Understanding the value of Arts and Culture (''with Patrycja Kaszynska, AHRC 2016). In 2015 Crossick published a report on ''Monographs and Open Access'' for the Higher Education Funding Council for England.www.gov.uk
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Personal life

Crossick married Rita Geraldine Vaudrey JP in 1973 and they have two sons. He is a

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supporter.

Publications

* ''The Lower Middle Class in Britain'' 1870–1914 (Editor) Publisher: Croom Helm (20 Jan 1977) * ''An Artisan Elite in Victorian Society: Kentish London 1840–1880'' 1978 (Joint editor) Publisher: C. Helm Rowman and Littlefield * ''Shopkeepers and Master Artisans in 19th Century Europe'' May 1984 (Geoffrey Crossick and Heinz-Gerhard Haupt) Publisher: Methuen young books * ''The Power of the Past: essays for Eric Hobsbawm'' September 1984 (Editors: Geoffrey Crossick, Pat Thane, and Roderick Floud) Publisher: Cambridge University Press * ''The Petite Bourgeoisie in Europe 1780–1914: Enterprise, Family and Independence'' 1995, New edition Nov 1997 (Geoffrey Crossick and Heinz-Gerhard Haupt) Publisher: Routledge * ''The Artisan and the European Town: 1500–1900 (Historical Urban Studies Series)'' June 1997 (Editor) Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Limited * ''Cathedrals of Consumption: the European department store 1850–1939'' March 1998 (Ed: Geoffrey Crossik and Serge Gaumain) Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Limited * ''Knowledge Transfer without Widgets: the challenge of the creative economy'' January2007 (Contributor) Publisher: Goldsmiths College

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Crossic, Geoffrey Living people 1946 births People educated at Haberdashers' Boys' School Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge People associated with Goldsmiths, University of London Fellows of the Royal Historical Society Vice-Chancellors of the University of London

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