Hugh St Clair Cunningham (born 1942) is a historian and retired academic. A specialist in the history of childhood, nationalism, philanthropy and leisure, he is an
emeritus professor of social history at the
University of Kent.
Career
Born in 1942,
[''The Writers' Directory 2005'', vol. 1 (2005), p. 373.] Cunningham completed a Bachelor of Arts degree at the
University of Cambridge, graduating in 1963.
[''The Academic Who's Who'' (A. and C. Black, 1973), p. 110.] He was then a
lecturer
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at the
University of Sierra Leone
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from 1963 to 1966.
He returned to studying, completing a doctorate at the
University of Sussex; his
DPhil was awarded in 1969
for his thesis "British Public Opinion and the Eastern Question 1877–1878".
In 1969, Cunningham became a lecturer at the
University of Kent, where he was promoted to a senior lecturership in 1984 and then to be
professor of social history in 1991.
He was still on the faculty at the end of the 2001–2002 year, but had retired by March 2004.
["Staff at the School of History"](_blank)
'' University of Kent''. Archived at the Internet Archive on 7 March 2004. He was appointed an emeritus professor on retirement.
In a staff profile, he listed his specialisms as: the "history of childhood; leisure; popular nationalism; British history 1832–1918". More recently, he has studied charity and philanthropy.
"Hugh Cunningham"
University of Kent
'. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
Bibliography
Books
Peer-reviewed articles and chapters
References
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1942 births
English historians
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Academics of the University of Kent
Living people