Prof Derek Aldcroft

Career: lectr in economic history Univ of Leicester and Univ of Glasgow 1960-71, reader Univ of Leicester 1971-73, prof of economic history Univ of Sidney 1973-76, prof of economic history Univ of Leicester 1976-94, research prof in economic history Manchester Met Univ 1994-2001 (visiting prof 2001-), fell Univ of Leicester 2002-; visiting prof Anglia Poly Univ 1993-1999; series ed Modern Economic and Social History; memb Economic History Soc

Books and Publications: incl: From Versailles to Wall Street (1977), The European Economy 1914-90 (1993), Full Employment: The Elusive Goal (1984), The British Economy 1920-51 (1986), Economic Change in Eastern Europe since 1918 (with Steven Morewood, 1995), Studies in the Interwar European Economy (1997), Exchange Rate Regimes in the Twentieth Century (with Michael Oliver, 1998); Trade Unions and the Economy 1870-2000 (with Michael Oliver, 2000), The European Economy 1914-2000 (1993, 4 ed 2001), Europe's Third World: The European Periphery in the Interwar Years (2006), Economic Disasters in the Twentieth Century (ed with Michael Oliver, 2007), The European Economy since 1914 (with Steven Morewood, 5 edn 2012)