Paul Slack
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Paul Alexander Slack {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|FBA|FRHistS}} (born 23 January 1943) is a British historian. He is a former principal of Linacre College, Oxford, pro-vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford, and professor of early modern social history in the University of Oxford.
Life
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Slack was educated at Bradford Grammar School, the University of Oxford (BA, DPhil). He was a fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, from 1973 until 1996. He served as junior proctor during the academic year 1986–87 and chairman of the General Board 1995–96.
On 1 October 1996, he took office as principal of Linacre College. He retired in September 2010. He was appointed pro-vice-chancellor in 1997, becoming in 2000 pro-vice-chancellor (academic services and university collections).
In 1999 he was appointed professor of early modern social history. He is also a member of the Environmental Change Institute advisory board and a former chairman of the curators of the University Libraries.
Slack was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1990.
Publications
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- Paul Slack, Plague: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, Second Edition, 2021; ISBN 978-019887111-8)
- Paul Slack, The English Poor Law, 1531-1782 (Basingstoke: Macmillan Education, 1990; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995)
- Paul Slack, From Reformation to improvement: public welfare in early modern England (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998; 1999)
- Paul Slack, The impact of plague in Tudor and Stuart England (London; Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985; reprinted with corrections, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985)
- Paul Slack, Poverty and policy in Tudor and Stuart England (London: Longman, 1988)
- Paul Slack, "Poverty and politics in Salisbury 1597-1666", in Peter Clark and Paul Slack, eds, Crisis and order in English towns, 1500-1700: essays in urban history (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul; Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1972), pp. 164–203
- Paul Slack: "Social Policy and the Constraints of Government, 1547–58", in Jennifer Loach and Robert Tittler, eds, The Mid-Tudor Polity c. 1540–1560 (London: Macmillan), pp. 94–115
- Paul Slack, The Traditional community under stress (Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1977)
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- Paul Slack, ed., Environments and historical change (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999)
- Paul Slack, ed., Poverty in early-Stuart Salisbury (Devizes: Wiltshire Record Society, 1975)
- Paul Slack, ed., Rebellion, popular protest, and the social order in early modern England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984)
;Co-editor
- Peter Burke, Brian Harrison, and Paul Slack, eds, Civil histories: essays presented to Sir Keith Thomas (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000)
- Peter Clark and Paul Slack, eds, Crisis and order in English towns, 1500-1700: essays in urban history (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul; Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1972)
- Peter Clark and Paul Slack, English towns in transition 1500-1700 (London: Oxford University Press, 1976)
- Terence Ranger and Paul Slack, eds, Epidemics and ideas: essays on the historical perception of pestilence (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992)
- Julie Trottier and Paul Slack, eds, Managing water resources past and present (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004)
- Paul Slack and Ryk Ward, eds, The peopling of Britain: the shaping of a human landscape (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002)
- John Morrill, Paul Slack, and Daniel Woolf, eds, Public duty and private conscience in seventeenth-century England: essays presented to G.E. Aylmer (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993)
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060720213259/http://www.itssg.ox.ac.uk/conference/2000/whos-who.html 5th IT Support Staff Conference, University Museum, Keble College, and Computing Laboratory (University of Oxford) on Thursday, 29 June 2000: Who's Who?]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20061009055224/http://www.oxfordtoday.ox.ac.uk/2001-02/v14n3/02.shtml A state of singularitie], Oxford Today 14:3 (Trinity Term 2002)
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070205164432/http://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/information/advisory.php Environmental Change Institute Advisory Board]
- [http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/1995-6/weekly/161195/coll.htm#12Ref Oxford University Gazette (16 November 1995)]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110606081955/http://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship/directory/archive.asp?fellowsID=481 British Academy Fellows Archive]
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Category:Fellows of Exeter College, Oxford
Category:Fellows of Linacre College, Oxford
Category:Fellows of St John's College, Oxford
Category:Fellows of the British Academy
Category:Pro-vice-chancellors of the University of Oxford
Category:20th-century English historians
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Category:Principals of Linacre College, Oxford
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Category:People educated at Bradford Grammar School