Philip John Waller (born 1946) is an English historian and emeritus fellow of

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. He is the author of a number of academic texts.

Biography

Philip Waller was born in 1946, and studied history at

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. He enjoyed a long career at

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, where he was Tutor in Modern History from 1971 to 2008. He also served as Senior Tutor and Sub-Warden of Merton, and held visiting professorships at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, in 1979 and

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, Colorado Springs, in 1985. Waller is the author of a number of academic texts, including ''Democracy and Sectarianism: A Political and Social History of Liverpool, 1868–1939'', published in 1981, and ''Town, City, and Nation: England 1850–1914'', published by

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in 2006. He has published many essays and articles in a variety of academic journals, magazines and symposia, and in 2003 he served as editor of ''

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''. While at Merton, Waller led history reading parties in

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, a tradition begun by his predecessor

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in 1953. Even in retirement Waller continued to invite undergraduate historians to visit his home on

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Selected publications

* ''Democracy and Sectarianism: A Political and Social History of Liverpool, 1868–1939'', 1981 * ''Politics and Social Change in Modern Britain'', Harvester, 1987 * ''The Chronology of the Modern World'', Helicon, 1994 * ''Chronology of the 20th Century'', Helicon, 1995 * ''The English Urban Landscape'', Oxford University Press, March 2000The English Urban Landscape at amazon
Retrieved 4 August 2020 * ''Town, City, and Nation: England 1850–1914'', Oxford University Press, 2006 * ''Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870–1918'', 15 May 2008 * ''A Dictionary of British and Irish History'', with Robert Peberdy, 24 September 2020

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"Philip John Waller – Emeritus Fellow"
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Biography

Selected publications

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