Paul Slack

Paul Alexander Slack is Principal of Linacre College, Oxford, Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, and Professor of Early Modern Social History in the University of Oxford.

Paul Alexander Slack was born on 23 January 1943.

He was a Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford from 1973 until 1996. He served as Junior Proctor during the academic year 1986/7 and Chairman of the General Board 1995/6. On 1 October 1996 he took office as Principal of Linacre College. He was appointed Pro-Vice-Chancellor in 1997, becoming in 2000 Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Academic Services and University Collections). In 1999 he was appointed Professor of Early Modern Social History. He is also a member of the Environmental Change Institute Advisory Board and a former Chairman of the Curators of the University Libraries.

Slack was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1990.

Publications

Author

*Paul Slack, "The English Poor Law, 1531-1782" (Basingstoke: Macmillan Education, 1990; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995)
*Paul Slack, "From Reformation to improvement: public welfare in early modern England" (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998; 1999)
*Paul Slack, "The impact of plague in Tudor and Stuart England" (London; Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985; reprinted with corrections, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985)
*Paul Slack, "Poverty and policy in Tudor and Stuart England" (London: Longman, 1988)
*Paul Slack, 'Poverty and politics in Salisbury 1597-1666', in Peter Clark and Paul Slack, eds, "Crisis and order in English towns, 1500-1700: essays in urban history" (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul; Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1972), pp. 164-203
*Paul Slack, "The Traditional community under stress" (Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1977)

Editor

*Paul Slack, ed., "Environments and historical change" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999)
*Paul Slack, ed., "Poverty in early-Stuart Salisbury" (Devizes: Wiltshire Record Society, 1975)
*Paul Slack, ed., "Rebellion, popular protest, and the social order in early modern England" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984)

Co-editor

*Peter Burke, Brian Harrison, and Paul Slack, eds, "Civil histories: essays presented to Sir Keith Thomas" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000)
*Peter Clark and Paul Slack, eds, "Crisis and order in English towns, 1500-1700: essays in urban history" (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul; Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1972)
*Peter Clark and Paul Slack, "English towns in transition 1500-1700" (London: Oxford University Press, 1976)
*Terence Ranger and Paul Slack, eds, "Epidemics and ideas: essays on the historical perception of pestilence" (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992)
*Julie Trottier and Paul Slack, eds, "Managing water resources past and present" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004)
*Paul Slack and Ryk Ward, eds, "The peopling of Britain: the shaping of a human landscape" (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002)
*John Morrill, Paul Slack, and Daniel Woolf, eds, "Public duty and private conscience in seventeenth-century England: essays presented to G.E. Aylmer" (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993)

ources and further information

* [http://www.itssg.ox.ac.uk/conference/2000/whos-who.html 5th IT Support Staff Conference, University Museum, Keble College, and Computing Laboratory (University of Oxford) on Thursday, 29th June 2000: Who's Who?]
* [http://www.oxfordtoday.ox.ac.uk/2001-02/v14n3/02.shtml 'A state of singularitie', "Oxford Today" 14:3 (Trinity Term 2002)]
* [http://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/information/advisory.php Environmental Change Institute Advisory Board]
* [http://www.ox.ac.uk/gazette/1995-6/weekly/161195/coll.htm#12Ref "Oxford University Gazette" (16 November 1995)]
* [http://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship/directory/archive.asp?fellowsID=481 British Academy Fellows Archive]