Professor Peter Mandler

Peter Mandler is a social, cultural and intellectual historian of modern Britain and of the humanities and social sciences in the Anglophone world more generally. Current research addresses Britain's transition to mass education (at school and university level) since the Second World War, and how the language of social science entered everyday life in Britain and the U.S. over the course of the 20th century. He is Professor of Modern Cultural History at the University of Cambridge, and Bailey Fellow in History at Gonville and Caius College; from 2012-16 he served as President of the Royal Historical Society and he is currently Chair of the British Academy's Modern History Section.