Prof Roy Church

Career: economic historian; BBC 1958-60, Purdue Univ Indiana USA 1960-61, Univ of Washington Seattle USA 1961-62, Univ of Br Columbia Vancouver Canada 1962-63, Univ of Birmingham 1963-72; UEA: prof of economic and social history 1972-, pro-vice-chllr 1986-89, dean Sch of History 1997-1999; visiting research fell Univ of Canberra 1998, Wellcome special research fell 1999-2003; pres Assoc of Business Historians; memb: Cncl of Econ History Soc, Econ and Social Research Cncl; govr History of Advertising Trust; FRHistS 1972; ed Economic History Review 1982-90

Books and Publications: Economic and Social Change in a Midland Town 1815-1900: Victorian Nottingham (1966), Kenricks in Hardware: A Family Business, 1790-1965 (1969), The Great Victorian Boom (1975), Herbert Austin: The British Motor Car Industry to 1941 (1979), The Dynamics of Victorian Business (ed, 1980), The History of the British Coal Industry, Volume 3: 1830-1913, Victorian Pre-eminence (1986, Wadsworth Prize), The Rise and Decline of the British Motor Industry (1994), Strikes and Solidarity: Coalfield Conflict in Britain 1889-1966 (with C E Outram, 1999)