Peter Borsay
Peter N. Borsay was a professor of history at Aberystwyth University. He was a specialist in the social, urban and cultural history of Britain.
Selected publications
- The English urban renaissance: Culture and society in the provincial town 1660-1770. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1991.
- Provincial towns in early modern England and Ireland: Change, convergence and divergence. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2002.
- A history of leisure: The British experience since 1500. Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
- Resorts and ports: European seaside towns since 1700. Channel View Publications, 2011.
- Leisure cultures in urban Europe c. 1700-1870: A transnational perspective. Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2015.
- The Invention of the English Landscape, c. 1700-1939. Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.