Peter Stansky

About

Peter Stansky is the honorary curator emeritus of the British Labour Collection at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives. He is also the Frances and Charles Field Professor of History Emeritus at Stanford University, where he also served as Chair of the Department of History (1975-82), Director of the Stanford Humanities Center (2000-01), Chair of the Faculty Senate (1977-78), and Associate Dean of Humanities and Sciences (1985-88). Stansky's scholarship addresses many of the main themes of modern British history: the dissipation of the Liberal and growth of the Labour parties; the rise of aesthetic modernism (and the central role played by the Bloomsbury Group); the impact of two world wars and the Spanish Civil War on British intellectuals; and postwar manifestations of an "austere," "swinging," and "cool" Britain. He received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Wittenberg University in 1984. He has written extensively on such topics as William Morris, the Bloomsbury Group and George Orwell.

Stansky's collaborations with the Hoover Institution Library & Archives includes overseeing the student exhibition projects Glimpses: British Visions Of War & Peace and Never Such Innocence: British Images of the First World War.