Richard Rodger

Position: Professor of Economic and Social History, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh

Also: Editor, Urban History 1987-
Social Sciences Academician 2004

Research areas

• Land, property and trust since 1700
• Housing history in Britain since 1700
• Testimony, memory and oral history in the 20th Century (Director, East midlands Oral History Archive)
• Urbanisation in Scotland; urban history of Edinburgh

Recent publications

Cities of Ideas: Civil Society and Urban Identities 1800-2000 (Ashgate 2004), (with R. Colls)

The Transformation of Edinburgh: Land, Property and Trust in the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2001; pbk 2004). Awarded Frank Watson Prize for Scottish History 2003.

A Consolidated Bibliography of Urban History (Ashgate Publishing 1996), (2nd ed., 1999)

Housing in Urban Britain 1780-1914
(Cambridge University Press 1995) (Hbk and pbk)

European Urban History: Prospect and Retrospect, ed.,
(Leicester U.P. 1993)

E-mail:
richard.rodger@ed.ac.uk

Phone:
+ 44 (0)131 651 5042

Fax:

Address:
School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh
50 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9JY

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