biography
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Laslett, (Thomas) Peter (Ruffell)
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| lived:
| (1915–2001)
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| biography:
| British historian. He studied at Cambridge, served in naval intelligence during World War 2, and became a producer for the BBC radio Talks programme (1946–9). He returned to Cambridge in 1948, where he established the Cambridge Group for the history of population and social structure (1964), and was reader in politics and the history of social structure (1966–83). He is best known for his book The World We Have Lost (1965), and for discovering the lost library of John Locke. |
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