David A Reeder (5 May 1931 – 1 August 2005) was an English historian at the University of Leicester. He pursued a career in urban history and the history of education, co-founding the Urban History Group and editing the Urban History Yearbook for nine years.
Early life
Reeder was born in Kingston upon Hull, the son of a railway fireman, and evacuated to Rawcliffe and then York during World War II.
After graduating from Nunthorpe Grammar School, Reeder won a scholarship at the University of Durham, where he served as Editor of Palatinate. He was a member of Hatfield College, where he was Captain of Table Tennis in 1950. Reeder took his PhD at the University of Leicester.
Publications
- The Victorian City: Images and Realities (1973)
- Urban Education In The Nineteenth Century (1977)
- Educating Our Masters (1980)
References
- ^ Rodger, Richard. "Obituary: David Reeder". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 October 2015.
- Roger, Richard (August 2005). "David A. Reeder (1931–2005) Educationalist and urban historian". Urban Hustory. Retrieved 23 April 2024.
- "Palatinate Online » Past Editors". Palatinate. Retrieved 13 October 2015.
- Moyes, Arthur (1996). Hatfield 1846-1996. p. 222.
- Dyos, Harold James (3 December 1998). The Victorian City: Images and Realities. Psychology Press. ISBN 9780415193238.
- Britain), History of Education Society (Great; Reeder, David A. (1 December 1977). Urban education in the nineteenth century: proceedings of the 1976 Annual Conference of the History of Education Society of Great Britain. Taylor and Francis. ISBN 9780850661262.
- Combe, George; Reeder, David A. (1 November 1980). Educating our masters: addresses and essays. Leicester University Press. ISBN 9780718550363.