Francis Michael Longstreth Thompson

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Francis Michael Longstreth Thompson FBA (born 1925) is an English economic and social historian.

He was Reader in Economic History at University College London in 1963. He became Professor of Modern History at Bedford College in 1968, and was from 1977 to 1990 director of the Institute of Historical Research, University of London.^[1]

He was president of the Royal Historical Society from 1989 to 1993. ^[2]

Works

Victorian England: the horse-drawn society; an inaugural lecture (1970) at Bedford College
English Landed Society in the Nineteenth Century (1963)
The Rise of Suburbia (1982) editor
Horses in European Economic History: a preliminary canter (1983) editor
The Rise of Respectable Society: A Social History of Victorian Britain, 1830-1900 (1988)
The University of London and the World of Learning, 1836-1986 (1990)
The Cambridge Social History of Britain, 1750–1950 (1990, three volumes) editor
Gentrification and the Enterprise Culture: Britain 1780-1980 (1993) Ford Lectures
Landowners, Capitalists and Entrepreneurs (1994, editor)

Kelly Boyd (editor) (1999), Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing, article p. 1189.

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Name	Thompson, Francis Michael Longstreth
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Short description	British historian
Date of birth	1925
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