Virginia Berridge
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Virginia Berridge, {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|FRHistS|HonFRCP|FAcSS}} (born 1946) is a British academic historian and public health expert. She is a Professor of History and Director of the Centre for History in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Berridge is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and the Royal Historical Society, and honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health and of the Royal College of Physicians.
Life
Berridge has a first degree and a PhD in history, both from the University of London, and is a Professor of History and Director of the Centre for History in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.{{cite Q|Q29581737}}{{Cite web |title=Virginia Berridge {{!}} LSHTM |url=https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/people/berridge.virginia |access-date=2025-04-11 |website=www.lshtm.ac.uk |language=en}} She worked in the Addiction Research Unit of the Institute of Psychiatry from 1974 to 1979 and at the Economic and Social Research Council from 1986–1987. From 1979 to 88 she was at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London.{{Cite book|url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/demons-9780199604982?cc=us&lang=en&|title=Demons: Our changing attitudes to alcohol, tobacco, and drugs|date=2014|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780199604982|location=Oxford, New York}}
Berridge is an academic historian and public health expert.{{Cite news |title=Professor Virginia Berridge |url=http://www.fead.org.uk/contributor/professor-virginia-berridge/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160209023044/http://www.fead.org.uk/contributor/professor-virginia-berridge/ |url-status=usurped |archive-date=9 February 2016 |access-date=2018-08-02 |work=FEAD - Film Exchange on Alcohol & Drugs |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |title=Virginia Berridge |url=https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/people/berridge.virginia |access-date=2018-08-02 |website=London School of Tropical Medicine |language=en}} She researches the history of health and health policy.{{Cite web |title=Virginia Berridge |url=https://www.e-ir.info/author/virginia-berridge/ |access-date=2025-04-11 |website=E-International Relations |language=en-US}} Recently she has published on the harm of e-cigarrettes and the policies around their availability and use.{{Cite web |last=elementary |date=2023-07-03 |title=New book on e-cigarettes from History & Policy co-founder, Virginia Berridge |url=https://historyandpolicy.org/new-book-on-e-cigarettes-from-history-policy-co-founder-virginia-berridge/ |access-date=2025-04-11 |website=History & Policy |language=en-GB}} She is Deputy Chair of the London Drugs Commission, which is reporting on cannabis use for the London Mayor, and has served on the Alcohol Education Research Council.{{Cite web |title=The E-Cigarette Summit UK, 2024 |url=https://www.e-cigarette-summit.co.uk/speaker/prof-virginia-berridge/ |access-date=2025-04-11 |website=The E-Cigarette Summit UK, 2024 |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |title=Professor Virginia Berridge |url=https://historyandpolicy.org/who-we-are/professor-virginia-berridge/ |access-date=2025-04-11 |website=History & Policy |language=en-GB}} Alongside Dr Alastair Reid (Girton College), Professor Simon Szreter, (St John’s College, Cambridge), and Professor Pat Thane (King’s College London), Berridge is a founder of History & Policy, which publishes historical research freely online.{{Cite web |title=Who we are |url=https://historyandpolicy.org/about-us/who-we-are/ |access-date=2025-04-11 |website=History & Policy |language=en-GB}}
Berridge is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health and of the Royal College of Physicians.{{Cite web |last=Sciences |first=Academy of Social |title=Fellows |url=https://acss.org.uk/fellows/ |access-date=2025-04-11 |website=Academy of Social Sciences |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |title=Current Fellows & Members {{!}} RHS |url=https://royalhistsoc.org/membership/rhs-fellows-and-members/ |access-date=2025-04-11 |website=royalhistsoc.org}}
Selected works
- Opium and the People: Opiate Use in Nineteenth-Century England (1987)
- AIDS in the UK: The Making of Policy, 1981–1994 (1996)
- Marketing health: Smoking and the discourse of public health, 1945–2000 (2007)
- Demons: Our Changing Attitudes to Alcohol, Tobacco, and Drugs (2014){{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/10509068/Demons-by-Virginia-Berridge-review.html|title=Demons by Virginia Berridge, review|first=Judith|last=Flanders|date=16 December 2013|access-date=1 August 2018|work=The Telegraph}}
- Public Health: A Very Short Introduction (2016)
- The Internationalisation of Tobacco Control, 1950-2010 (2016)
- Infiltrating history into the public health curriculum (2018)
References
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External links
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- {{cite web |title=Virginia Berridge BA PhD FRHistS Hon FFPH Hon FRCP AcSS |url=http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/people/berridge.virginia |publisher= London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110926223235/http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/people/berridge.virginia |archive-date=2011-09-26}}
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Category:British women historians
Category:Fellows of the Royal Historical Society
Category:Honorary Fellows of the Faculty of Public Health
Category:Honorary Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians
Category:Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences
Category:20th-century British historians
Category:20th-century British women writers