Paul Slack
Paul Alexander Slack is a British historian. He is a former 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.
Life
Slack was educated at Bradford Grammar School, the University of Oxford. He was a fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, from 1973 until 1996. He served as junior proctor during the academic year 1986–87 and chairman of the General Board 1995–96.On 1 October 1996, he took office as principal of Linacre College. He retired in September 2010. He was appointed pro-vice-chancellor in 1997, becoming in 2000 pro-vice-chancellor.
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, Plague: A Very Short Introduction
- Paul Slack, The English Poor Law, 1531-1782
- Paul Slack, From Reformation to improvement: public welfare in early modern England
- Paul Slack, The impact of plague in Tudor and Stuart England
- Paul Slack, Poverty and policy in Tudor and Stuart England
- 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, pp. 164–203
- Paul Slack: "Social Policy and the Constraints of Government, 1547-58", in Jennifer Loach and Robert Tittler, eds, The Mid-Tudor Polity c. 1540–1560, pp. 94-115
- Paul Slack, The Traditional community under stress
- Paul Slack, ed., Environments and historical change
- Paul Slack, ed., Poverty in early-Stuart Salisbury
- Paul Slack, ed., Rebellion, popular protest, and the social order in early modern England
- Peter Burke, Brian Harrison, and Paul Slack, eds, Civil histories: essays presented to Sir Keith Thomas
- Peter Clark and Paul Slack, eds, Crisis and order in English towns, 1500-1700: essays in urban history
- Peter Clark and Paul Slack, English towns in transition 1500-1700
- Terence Ranger and Paul Slack, eds, Epidemics and ideas: essays on the historical perception of pestilence
- Julie Trottier and Paul Slack, eds, Managing water resources past and present
- Paul Slack and Ryk Ward, eds, The peopling of Britain: the shaping of a human landscape
- John Morrill, Paul Slack, and Daniel Woolf, eds, ''Public duty and private conscience in seventeenth-century England: essays presented to G.E. Aylmer''