Philip Waller

Philip John Waller (born 1946) is an English historian and emeritus fellow of Merton College, University of Oxford. He is the author of a number of academic texts.

Biography Philip Waller was born in 1946, and studied history at Magdalen College, Oxford. He enjoyed a long career at Merton College, Oxford, where he was Tutor in Modern History from 1971 to 2008.

He also served as Senior Tutor and Sub-Warden of Merton, and held visiting professorships at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, in 1979 and Colorado College, Colorado Springs, in 1985.

Selected publications Democracy and Sectarianism: A Political and Social History of Liverpool, 1868–1939, 1981 Politics and Social Change in Modern Britain, Harvester, 1987 The Chronology of the Modern World, Helicon, 1994 Chronology of the 20th Century, Helicon, 1995 The English Urban Landscape, Oxford University Press, March 2000 Town, City, and Nation: England 1850–1914, Oxford University Press, 2006 Writers, Readers, and Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870–1918, 15 May 2008 A Dictionary of British and Irish History, with Robert Peberdy, 24 September 2020