Keith Laybourn
British historian and academic
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Keith Laybourn is Diamond Jubilee Professor of the University of Huddersfield and Professor of History. He is a British historian of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century specialising in labour history and the working class in Britain. He has published extensively, and has authored over 46 books on subjects including women's history, social policy and administration, and policing. In 2012 he took over presidency of the Society for the Study of Labour History following the death of the previous president, Eric Hobsbawm. He has also appeared on television, including Who Do You Think You Are? In 2016 he signed a public letter along with many other academic historians opposing Brexit. Born in Barnsley, South Yorkshire on the 13th March 1946. Married with three children and lives in Leeds, West Yorkshire
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