Professor Vic Gatrell

University positions
Professor of History (retired)

College position
Life Fellow

Department
History

Degrees
B.A. (Hons.) (Rhodes University, S.Africa); M.A. (Cambridge); Ph.D. (Cambridge)

Awards and prizes
T.S.Ashton Prize of Economic History Society (1976);
Whitfield Prize of the Royal Historical Society for The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People, 1770-1868 (1995);
Wolfson Literary Prize for History for City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in Eighteenth-Century London (2006)
English PEN’s Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History for City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in Eighteenth-Century London

Research interests
British cultural and social history

Email
vag1000@cam.ac.uk