- Professor of Political Economy, University of Cambridge (from 1980 to 1991)
- Master, Clare College, Cambridge (from 1975 to 1993)
- Drummond Professor of Political Economy and Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford (from 1965 to 1975)
- Mostly Three-Movers: Collected Chess Problems (Feenschach-Phénix, 1995)
- (ed.) Economy and Democracy (Macmillan, 1985)
- (ed. with J. R. Sargent) Contemporary Problems of Economic Policy: Essays from the CLARE Group (Methuen, 1983)
- (with C. H. Feinstein and J. C. Odling-Smee) British Economic Growth 1856–1973 (New York: OUP, 1982)
- (ed. with G. B. Stafford) The Grants Economy and Collective Consumption (Macmillan, 1982)
- (ed.) Slower Growth in the Western World (Heinemann, 1982)
- Hon. Member, American Economic Association (1993)
- Foreign Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1985)
- President Royal Society (from 1984 to 1986)
- Managing Trustee, Nuffield Foundation (from 1975 to 1996)
- Trustee, Urwick Orr and Partners Ltd (from 1978 to 1986)
- Chairman, Bank of England Panel of Academic Consultants (from 1977 to 1993)
- Member, OECD Expert Group on on Non-inflationary Growth (from 1975 to 1977)
- FIDE International Master of Chess Composition (1965)
- Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College (from 1987 to 2016)
- Master, Downing College, Cambridge (from 1987 to 1995)
- Chichele Professor of Economic History and Fellow, All Souls College (from 1969 to 1987)
- Assistant Lecturer then Lecturer Faculty of History and Director of Studies in History and Fellow, Queens' College, Cambridge (from 1955 to 1968)
- Research Fellow, Jesus College, Cambridge (from 1952 to 1955)
- Why the West Won? (Naples, 2010).
- Convivere con i vicini (Rome: Luisse, 2008).
- L'idea di Europa (Naples: La Scuola Di Pitagora, 2009).
- (ed.), History of Mankind, vol. VI (Paris: UNESCO, 2008).
- Cinque Lezioni di teoria e storia dello sviluppo economico (Naples, 2009).
- L'Economia Britannica dal 1815 al 1914 (Milan: Einaudi, 1994).
- The Transformation of England (London: Methuen, 1979).
- The First Industrial Nation (London: Methuen, 1967; 1983).
- Retailing Revolution - a History of Multiple Retailing in the Food Trades (London: Longman, 1967).
- Engish Trade Tokens (London: Abelard Schuman, 1962).
- The Brewing Industry in England 1700-1830 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1959).
- Trustee and Member Council, GB Saskawa Foundation (Chairman, 1997-2005; President, 2006-) (1994-)
- International Institute of Economic History Francesco Datini, Prato (Member, Executive Committee, 1972-99; Comitato d'Honore, 1999-)
- Member, Academia Europaea (1989)
- Honorary President, International Economic History Association (1978-)
- Order of the Rising Sun with Gold Rays (from 2003).
- Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 2006 to 2023)
- Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1999 to 2006)
- Postgraduate, Wadham College, Oxford (from 1998 to 1999)
- Undergraduate, Queens’ College, Cambridge (from 1995 to 1998)
- Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 1999)
- Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Princeton University (from 1997 to 2001)
- Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1992 to 1999)
- Undergraduate, Oriel College, Oxford (from 1989 to 1992)
- Greek history, with special liking for the Hellenistic period, the polis, epigraphy, Asia Minor and Greek sculpture
- (ed., with N. Papazarkadas and R. Parker), Interpreting the Athenian Empire (Duckworth, 2009)
- 'Chaironeia 338: Topographies of Memory', JHS 128 (2008), 72-91
- 'The Many Lives of Eugnotos of Akraiphia', Studi Ellenistici 16 (2005), 141-91
- Antiochos III and the Cities of Western Asia Minor (OUP, 1999; rev. ed. New York: OUP, 2002, rev. French tr. 2004)
- 'Peel Polity Interaction in the Hellenistic World', Past & Present 180 (2003), 9-40
- 'Black Hunter Variations', PCPS 40 (1994), 49-80
- Professor of European History, University of Pisa (from 1990 to 2000)
- Resident Professor of History, The Bologna Center (from 1979 to 1990)
- Professor of Modern History, University of Reading (from 1976 to 1979)
- Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 1968)
- Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 1967 to 1968)
- Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford (from 1968 to 1975)
- Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1960 to 1967)
- Undergraduate, Magdalen College, Oxford (from 1956 to 1959)
- Associate, Center for European Studies, Harvard University (1987)
- Member of Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (from 1985 to 1986)
- Academic Director of Research Institute, Bologna Center (from 1980 to 1985)
- Acting Director, European program, SAIS–Washington (Spring 1983)
- Problems in modern European History and Historiography
- Founding Director, Poverty Research Unit, University of Sussex (from 1994 to 1997)
- Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 1984 to 2023)
- Two-Year Fellow, All Souls College (from 1982 to 1984)
- Fellow, Institute of Development Studies and Professorial Fellow, University of Sussex (from 1970 to 1994)
- Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1961 to 1968)
- Undergraduate, Balliol College, Oxford (from 1957 to 1960)
- Economics, especially in agricultural research
- Land reform
- Poverty and inequality
- Nutrition
- Economic demography in developing countries, including Bangladesh, Botswana, India, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka and South Africa
- Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College (from 1998 to 2014)
- Senior Research Fellow (and Fellow Librarian 1982-98), All Souls College (from 1967 to 1998)
- Junior Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 1960 to 1967)
- Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1953 to 1960)
- The Chapel, All Souls College, Saturday 11 October 2014, 2:30pm
- Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College (from 1988 to 2019)
- Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 1972 to 1988)
- Junior Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 1965 to 1972)
- Principal, Hertford College, Oxford (from 2005 to 2011)
- Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 2005)
- Lecturer in Historical Demography and Fellow, All Souls College (from 1991 to 2005)
- Lecturer in Biological Anthropology, University College London (from 1980 to 1990)
- Oil Demand Analyst, Shell UK Ltd (from 1979 to 1980)
- Postgraduate, Churchill College, Cambridge (from 1975 to 1979)
- Undergraduate, Hertford College, Oxford (from 1972 to 1975)
- The Field and the Forge: Population, Production, and Power in the pre-Industrial West (New York: OUP, 2003)
- Death and the Metropolis: Studies in the Historical Demography of London, 1670–1830 (New York: CUP, 1993)
- Chairman, Animals in Science Committee (from 2011)
- Member of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population
- Honorary Fellow, All Souls College (from 2004 to 2009)
- Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 1970 to 1995)
- Assistant in Philosophy (1950-9), then Professor and Chairman, Section of History of Philosophy, Warsaw University (from 1950 to 1968)
- Assistant in Phlosophy, Łodz University (from 1949 to 1950)
- Undergraduate and Postgraduate, Łodz University (from 1945 to 1950)
- All Souls College Chapel, Saturday 28 November 2009, 2:00pm
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