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Paul Alexander Slack FBA (born 23 January 1943) is a British historian. He is a former principal of Linacre College, Oxford, pro-vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford, and professor of early modern social history in the University of Oxford . Life. Slack was educated at Bradford Grammar School, the University of Oxford ( BA, DPhil ).
Emeritus Professor of Early Modern Social History and former Principal of Linacre College, Oxford. Author of The Invention of Improvement: Information and Material Progress in Seventeenth-Century England.
Paul Slack. Actor: Love Actually. Paul Slack is known for Love Actually (2003), Inside the Mind of Mr D.H.Lawrence (2013) and Fallen (2016).
29 de dic. de 2015 · Paul Slack, The Invention of Improvement: Information and Material Progress in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015). Pages xii + 321. £35.00 hardback. | Continuity and Change | Cambridge Core.
Paul Slack explores the political and economic circumstances which allowed notions of improvement to take root, and the changes in habits of mind which improvement accelerated. It encouraged innovation, industriousness, and the acquisition of consumer goods which delivered comfort and pleasure.
Paul Slack is a historian of plague and its impact in Europe in the 18th century. He studies how people perceived and responded to the decline of plague in different regions and contexts, using contemporary texts as sources.
10 de ago. de 2017 · Edited by Michael J. Braddick and Joanna Innes, this book explores the themes of suffering and happiness in England from 1550 to 1850. It pays tribute to Paul Slack's work as a historian and engages with the history of emotions as a field of enquiry.
