Stone, Lawrence (1919–1999)
© Rob Judge
Originally focusing on the English aristocracy, Stone played an important role in promoting the use of social science methodologies (including cliometrics) in history. Subsequently he was an early advocate of the move away from statistics to a revival of narrative history.
- Forenames:
- Lawrence
- Surname:
- Stone
- Dates:
- 1919–1999
- Institutions:
- Past and Present
Princeton University - Significant posts:
- Dodge Chair of History, Princeton University
Director, Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, Princeton University - Influences:
- Prestwich, John
Tawney, Richard Henry
Trevor-Roper, Hugh Redwald - Contemporaries:
- Elton, Geoffrey Rudolph
Plumb, John Harold - Themes:
- Annales school
Cliometrics
Economic history
Social history
- Biographies:
-
Blackwell Dictionary of Historians
Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Interviews with Historians - Obituaries:
- Guardian
Independent
Bibliography
Personal papers
Significant publications
- Lawrence Stone, The Crisis of the Aristocracy 1558–1641 (Oxford, 1965)
- Lawrence Stone, 'The revival of narrative: reflections on a new old history', Past and Present, 85 (1979), 3–24
- Lawrence Stone, The Past and Present (1981)
- The First Modern Society: Essays in English history in Honour of Lawrence Stone, ed. A. L. Beier, D. Cannadine, and J. M. Rosenheim (1989)
Other reading
- Christopher Hill, R. H. Hilton and Eric Hobsbawm, 'Past and Present: origins and early years', Past and Present, 100 (1983), 3–14
