Philip John Waller

Philip Waller, now an Emeritus Fellow, was Fellow and Tutor in Modern History from 1971 to 2008, serving variously too as Principal of the Postmasters, Garden Master, Senior Tutor, Sub-Warden, and Acting Warden.

From 2003 to 2006 he was editor of the English Historical Review. His books include: Democracy and Sectarianism: A Political & Social History of Liverpool 1868-1939 (1981), Town, City, and Nation: England 1850-1914 (1983), and Writers, Readers, & Reputations: Literary Life in Britain, 1870-1918 (2006); and, as editor or co-editor, Politics and Social Change in Modern Britain (1987), Chronology of the Modern World 1763-1992 (1993), Chronology of the 20th Century (1995), The English Urban Landscape (2000), and A Dictionary of British and Irish History (2021).

He has published essays and articles on: parliamentary humour in the late-19th and early-20th centuries; images of urban life 1850-1914; Charles Booth; Catholic converts among late-19th and early-20th century authors; ‘The bitter cry of the Edwardian middle classes’; Robert Ensor, Edwardian rationalist; Chinese immigration into Britain; A.A. Milne; scholarly publishing at OUP in the 1960s; the 1981 Toxteth riots; and ‘Light reading for intellectual heavyweights’.

For the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, he is the author of lives of: George Brodrick, Sir Arthur Forwood, Charles Garvice, George Howson, Ralph Ward Jackson, Sir Archibald Salvidge, George Sims, Bob Paisley, and Bill Shankly.