Philip Waller is a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, where he has served as History Tutor from 1971 and has been Sub-Warden and Acting Warden. He is author of Writers, Readers, & Reputations: Literary Life in Britain 1870-1918 (2006; 2008), which, while heavyweight in scale (1181 pages!), and lauded as the ‘defining literary history of the period’, is consistently entertaining. Previously, he published books on urban history, religion and politics. He is a past editor of the English Historical Review.
Philip Waller
