Keir Waddington (born 1970) is professor of history at

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. He is a specialist in medical, urban, and environmental history. He is the joint editor of the

Social Histories of Medicine Social Histories of Medicine is a book series from Manchester University Press which covers "all aspects of health, illness and medicine, from prehistory to the present, in every part of the world". It runs in collaboration with the Society for th ...

monograph series. He previously held a post at the Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine, working with

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on ''The History of Bethlehem'', and had a fellowship at St Bartholomew's Hospital.

Early and personal life

Waddington is from Chichester and attended

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. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in History from the University of East Anglia and a Master of Arts (MA) and a

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from University College London (UCL). Waddington married Katherine Weikert, American historian at the University of Winchester, in her home of Indiana in September 2022.

Selected publications

* ''An introduction to the social history of medicine: Europe since 1500''. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2011. * ''The bovine scourge: neat, tuberculosis and public health, 1850-1914''. Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 2006. * ''Medical education at St. Bartholomew's hospital, 1123 - 1995''. Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 2003. * ''Charity and the London Hospitals, 1850-1898''. Boydell & Brewer, Woodbridge, 2000. Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series.

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* * Living people 1970 births Academics of Cardiff University Alumni of University College London Alumni of the University of East Anglia British medical historians Environmental historians People from Chichester Urban historians {{UK-med-bio-stub