Laslett, Thomas Peter Ruffell (1915–2001)
© The Master and Fellows of Trinity College Cambridge
A pioneer in the study of social structure in Britain, Laslett co-founded the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure which was innovative both in its collaborative approach to history and in bringing together researchers from a wide range of disciplines.
- Forenames:
- Thomas Peter Ruffell
- Surname:
- Laslett
- Honours:
- CBE
- Dates:
- 1915–2001
- Institutions:
- Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure
Open University
University of the Third Age - Significant posts:
- Founding member, Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure
Reader in Politics and the History of Social Structure, University of Cambridge (Trinity College)
- Contemporaries:
- Wachter, Kenneth W.
Wrigley, Edward Anthony - Themes:
- Demographic history
Social history
Intellectual history
- Biographies:
- Blackwell Dictionary of Historians
Interviews with Historians
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Proceedings of the British Academy - Obituaries:
- Guardian
History Today
Bibliography
Significant publications
- Peter Laslett, The World We have Lost: English Society Before the Coming of Industry (London, 1965)
- Peter Laslett with the assistance of Richard Wall, Household and Family in Past Time (London, 1972)
- Kenneth W. Wachter with Eugene A. Hammel, Peter Laslett, Statistical Studies of Historical Social Structure (London, 1978)
Other reading
- E. A. Wrigley, 'Small-scale but not parochial: the work of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure', Family and Community History, 1 (1998), 27–36
