Peter Borsay

Peter N. Borsay (1950-2020) was a professor of history at Aberystwyth University. He was a specialist in the social, urban and cultural history of Britain.

Selected publications The English urban renaissance: Culture and society in the provincial town 1660-1770. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1991. Provincial towns in early modern England and Ireland: Change, convergence and divergence. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2002. (Edited with L. Proudfoot) A history of leisure: The British experience since 1500. Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Resorts and ports: European seaside towns since 1700. Channel View Publications, 2011. (Edited with J.K. Walton) Leisure cultures in urban Europe c. 1700-1870: A transnational perspective. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2015. (Edited with J.H. Furnee) (Studies in Popular Culture series) The Invention of the English Landscape, c. 1700-1939. Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. (Posthumous, completed by Prof. Rosemary Sweet)