Regent’s is delighted to announce that Dr Charles Read has been appointed an Associate Professor in the Faculty of History at the University of Oxford. He will also continue as Senior Tutor and Tutorial Fellow in History and Economics at Regent’s.

Professor Read is an economic historian of Britain, Ireland and the British Empire. His books include The Great Famine in Ireland and Britain’s Financial Crisis (2022) and Calming the Storms: The Carry Trade, the Banking School and British Financial Crises since 1825 (2023). His next monograph, The Financial Crisis of 1847 and the British Empire, is under contract with British Academy Monographs.

His research has received four major academic prizes: the International Economic History Association’s prize for the best dissertation in nineteenth-century economic history, and the Thirsk-Feinstein PhD Dissertation Prize, the T. S. Ashton Prize for the best Economic History Review article and the New Researcher Prize of the Economic History Society.

The College warmly congratulates Charles on this recognition of his academic achievements.