Dan Wright (academic)

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Daniel Wright is a well-respected historian, currently in residence at the University of Cambridge. He specialises in life expectancy rates in the city of Glasgow in 1841. Wright has read and written extensively on this issue, with his paper The Life Expectancy in Glasgow in 1841 being widely acclaimed by both those within and outside of his field.

Wright is known for beginning his essays and other works with quotations from popular culture before relating these modern ideas to his historical observations. He is known to have quoted Bob Dylan and William Blake in this way and it has been rumoured that he has also contemplated quoting the musical Oliver! and even himself.