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'''Royden John Harrison''' (3 March 1927 – 30 June 2002) was a [[United Kingdom|British]] labour [[historian]].<ref name="Guardian">Michael Barratt Brown and John Halstead, '[https://ift.tt/2sYMkO0 Obituary: Royden Harrison], ''The Guardian'' (3 July 2002), retrieved 9 December 2019.</ref>
He was born in London and educated at King Alfred's School, [[Hampstead]], as well as in Canada and Australia. He read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at [[St Catherine's College, Oxford]], where he was influenced by [[G. D. H. Cole]].<ref name="Guardian"/> While at Oxford he met his future wife, [[Pauline Harrison|Pauline Cowan]]. After they were both awarded PhDs, they took up posts at [[University of Sheffield|Sheffield University]], where he became a lecturer.<ref name="Guardian"/> It was here, with [[Kenneth Alexander]] and [[John Hughes]], that he founded day-release educational courses for miners from Derbyshire and Yorkshire. Harrison also represented the [[National Union of Public Employees]] on Sheffield's trades and labour council.<ref name="Guardian"/>
In 1965 he was appointed reader in politics at Sheffield and in 1970 he became the first Professor and Director of [[University of Warwick|Warwick University]]'s Centre for the Study of Social History. Here he oversaw the founding of the modern records centre for storing the papers of the [[Trades Union Congress]] and the [[Confederation of British Industry]], as well as those of other unions and businesses.<ref name="Guardian"/> Harrison was a member of the [[Communist Party of Great Britain]] until 1956, when he joined the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]]. In 1960 he helped found the Society of the Study of Labour History and became editor of its bulletin (which was later renamed the ''Labour History Journal'').<ref name="Guardian"/>
==Works==
*''Before The Socialists: Studies in Labour and Politics, 1861–1881'' (Routledge: 1965; 2nd edn, Gregg Revivals, 1994).
*(editor), ''The English Defence of the Commune'' (Merlin, 1971).
*(editor), ''The Independent Collier: The Coal Miner as Archetypal Proletarian Reconsidered (Harvester, 1978).
*(editor with J. Zeitlin), ''Divisions of Labour: Skilled Workers and Technological Change in Nineteenth Century Britain'' (Harvester, 1985).
*''The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905: The Formative Years'' (Macmillan, 1999).
==Notes==
==Further reading==
*John McIlroy and John Halstead, 'A Very Different Historian: Royden Harrison, Radical Academics and Suppressed Alternatives', ''Historical Studies in Industrial Relations'' 15 (Spring 2003), pp. 113–143.
[[Category:1927 births]]
[[Category:2002 deaths]]
[[Category:Alumni of St Catherine's College, Oxford]]
[[Category:Academics of the University of Sheffield]]
[[Category:Academics of the University of Warwick]]
[[Category:Labor historians]]
He was born in London and educated at King Alfred's School, [[Hampstead]], as well as in Canada and Australia. He read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at [[St Catherine's College, Oxford]], where he was influenced by [[G. D. H. Cole]].<ref name="Guardian"/> While at Oxford he met his future wife, [[Pauline Harrison|Pauline Cowan]]. After they were both awarded PhDs, they took up posts at [[University of Sheffield|Sheffield University]], where he became a lecturer.<ref name="Guardian"/> It was here, with [[Kenneth Alexander]] and [[John Hughes]], that he founded day-release educational courses for miners from Derbyshire and Yorkshire. Harrison also represented the [[National Union of Public Employees]] on Sheffield's trades and labour council.<ref name="Guardian"/>
In 1965 he was appointed reader in politics at Sheffield and in 1970 he became the first Professor and Director of [[University of Warwick|Warwick University]]'s Centre for the Study of Social History. Here he oversaw the founding of the modern records centre for storing the papers of the [[Trades Union Congress]] and the [[Confederation of British Industry]], as well as those of other unions and businesses.<ref name="Guardian"/> Harrison was a member of the [[Communist Party of Great Britain]] until 1956, when he joined the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]]. In 1960 he helped found the Society of the Study of Labour History and became editor of its bulletin (which was later renamed the ''Labour History Journal'').<ref name="Guardian"/>
==Works==
*''Before The Socialists: Studies in Labour and Politics, 1861–1881'' (Routledge: 1965; 2nd edn, Gregg Revivals, 1994).
*(editor), ''The English Defence of the Commune'' (Merlin, 1971).
*(editor), ''The Independent Collier: The Coal Miner as Archetypal Proletarian Reconsidered (Harvester, 1978).
*(editor with J. Zeitlin), ''Divisions of Labour: Skilled Workers and Technological Change in Nineteenth Century Britain'' (Harvester, 1985).
*''The Life and Times of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1858-1905: The Formative Years'' (Macmillan, 1999).
==Notes==
==Further reading==
*John McIlroy and John Halstead, 'A Very Different Historian: Royden Harrison, Radical Academics and Suppressed Alternatives', ''Historical Studies in Industrial Relations'' 15 (Spring 2003), pp. 113–143.
[[Category:1927 births]]
[[Category:2002 deaths]]
[[Category:Alumni of St Catherine's College, Oxford]]
[[Category:Academics of the University of Sheffield]]
[[Category:Academics of the University of Warwick]]
[[Category:Labor historians]]
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