Alfred Wood (historian)
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Alfred Cecil Wood (7 February 1896 – 18 May 1968) was Professor of Modern History at the University of Nottingham from 1951 to 1960.
Life
Wood was born on 7 February 1896 and educated at Liverpool College and Jesus College, Oxford.[1] He was a Second Lieutenant in the King's Liverpool Regiment and the Cheshire Regiment during the First World War. He was wounded and left permanently disabled. After the war, he studied at Jesus College, Oxford, obtaining a first-class degree in Modern History in 1921 and a BLitt in 1923. In 1926, he was appointed as a lecturer at University College, Nottingham (later renamed the University of Nottingham), rising to Reader in 1946. He was appointed Professor of Modern History at the same university in 1951, and retired in 1960.[2]
His publications included A History of the Levant Company (1935), Nottinghamshire in the Civil War (1937), History of Nottinghamshire (1947), and a History of University College, Nottingham (1953). He also contributed to the English Historical Review, the Transactions of the Royal Historical Society and other journals.[2]
References
- ^ Who Was Who, Published by A&C Black Limited. Online edition, 2020
- ^ a b "Wood, Professor Alfred Cecil". Who Was Who. Oxford University Press. December 2007. Retrieved 7 March 2009.
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