Jerry White (historian)
Jerry White is a British historian who has specialised in the history of London. From 1997 onwards he has worked on a trilogy of books about London from 1700 to 2000.
Career in local government
Jerry White embarked upon a career in local government after leaving grammar school in Dorset in 1967. Between 1989 and 1995 he was the chief executive of the London Borough of Hackney. Between 1995 and 2009 he was one of the three Local Government Ombudsmen for England.[1]
Career as a historian
His discovery in November 1971 of the Rothschild Buildings in Flower and Dean Street, Spitalfields led him to write an oral history of it. As a consequence of this, he met Raphael Samuel who provided him with academic training as an historian.
Since 2009 he has been the visiting professor of history at Birkbeck.[2]
Bibliography
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- Rothschild Buildings : life in an East End tenement block 1887-1920. 1980.
- Campbell Bunk: The Worst Street in North London Between the Wars (2003)
- London in the Nineteenth Century: A Human Awful Wonder of God (2008)
- London in the Twentieth Century: A City and Its People (2008)
- London: The Story of a Great City (Published in Conjunction with the Museum of London) (2010)
- London In The Eighteenth Century: A Great and Monstrous Thing (2012)
- A Great and Monstrous Thing: London in the Eighteenth Century (2013)
- "No room to live". History Today. 63 (11): 43–49. November 2013.
- Zeppelin Nights: London in the First World War (2014)
- London Stories (Everyman's Pocket Classics) (2014)
- Mansions of Misery: A Biography of the Marshalsea Debtors' Prison (The Bodley Head) (2016)
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- Michael Howard / Keith Thomas (1972)
- W. L. Warren / Frances Yates (1973)
- Moses Finley / Theodore Zeldin (1974)
- Frances Donaldson / Olwen Hufton (1975)
- Nikolaus Pevsner / Norman Stone (1976)
- Denis Mack Smith / Simon Schama (1977)
- Alistair Horne (1978)
- Richard Cobb / Quentin Skinner / Mary Soames (1979)
- R. J. W. Evans / F. S. L. Lyons (1980)
- J. W. Burrow (1981)
- John McManners (1982)
- Martin Gilbert / Kenneth Rose (1983)
- Antonia Fraser / Maurice Keen (1984)
- Richard Davenport-Hines / John Grigg (1985)
- J. H. Elliott / Jonathan Israel (1986)
- Rees Davies / John Pemble (1987)
- no award (1988)
- Richard Evans / Paul Kennedy (1989)
- Richard A. Fletcher / Donald Cameron Watt (1990)
- Colin Platt (1991)
- John Bossy / Alan Bullock (1992)
- Linda Colley / Robert Skidelsky (1993)
- Robert Bartlett / Barbara Harvey (1994)
- Fiona MacCarthy / John C. G. Röhl (1995)
- H. C. G. Matthew (1996)
- Orlando Figes (1997)
- John Brewer / Patricia Hollis (1998)
- Antony Beevor / Amanda Vickery (1999)
- Joanna Bourke / Andrew Roberts (2000)
- Ian Kershaw / Mark Mazower / Roy Porter (2001)
- Barry Cunliffe / Jerry White (2002)
- William Dalrymple / Robert Gildea (2003)
- Frances Harris / Julian Jackson / Diarmaid MacCulloch (2004)
- Richard Overy / David Reynolds (2005)
- Evelyn Welch / Chris Wickham (2006)
- Christopher Clark / Vic Gatrell / Adam Tooze (2007)
- John Darwin / Rosemary Hill (2008)
- Mary Beard / Margaret M. McGowan (2009)
- Dominic Lieven / Jonathan Sumption (2010)
- Ruth Harris / Nicholas Thomas (2011)
- Susie Harries / Alexandra Walsham (2012)
- Susan Brigden / Christopher Duggan (2013)
- Cyprian Broodbank / Catherine Merridale (2014)
- Richard Vinen / Alexander Watson (2015)
- Robin Lane Fox / Nikolaus Wachsmann (2016)
- Christopher de Hamel (2017)
- Peter Marshall (2018)
- Mary Fulbrook (2019)
- David Abulafia (2020)
- Sudhir Hazareesingh (2021)
- Clare Jackson (2022)
- Halik Kochanski (2023)
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