3月26日讲座: Britain’s Transition to Mass Education (since the Second World War)

Speaker: Professor Peter Mandler

(Professor of Modern Cultural History, Cambridge University, UK)

Time: 10:10-12:00 am

Date: 26 March 2015 (Thursday)

Venue: Room 115, English School Building, BFSU

About the Speaker

Peter Mandler was born in the USA in 1958, educated at Oxford and Harvard Universities, and has taught in Britain since 1991 and in Cambridge since 2001, where he is now Professor of Modern Cultural History at the University of Cambridge and Bailey College Lecturer in History at Gonville and Caius College. He writes on the political, cultural, social and intellectual history of Britain since c. 1800 and on the history of the social sciences in the English-speaking world. From 2012 to 2016 he serves a four-year term as President of the Royal Historical Society. His key publications include Return from the Natives: How Margaret Mead Won the Second World War and Lost the Cold War (2013), The English National Character: The History of an Idea from Edmund Burke to Tony Blair (2006), History and National Life (2002), The Fall and Rise of the Stately Home (1997) etc.