Peter Scott

Peter Scott is Professor of International Business History at Henley Business School, University of Reading and a former President of the Association of Business Historians. His research interests include: the growth of mass consumption, consumer credit and owner-occupation, together with their impacts on household behaviour; the evolution of mass retailing formats in Britain and the United States; the development of consumer goods industries; and path dependence and technological change.

His monograph Triumph of the South: A Regional Economic History of Britain During the Early Twentieth Century (Aldershot: Ashgate) was awarded the Wadsworth Prize for the best monograph in British business history published in 2007. A further monograph, The Making of the Modern British Home: Suburbanisation and its Impact on Working-class Family Life Between the Wars, published by Oxford U.P. in October 2013 was the subject of a Henley Business School public lecture on 12th February 2014.

Study and Research Skills: Sources, Methods, and Practice (MMM070)

Introduction to Thesis Literature Review (MMM098)

MBA Business Project (MWM014)

MBA Dissertation (MWM015)

Study skills for managers (MWM013)

Teacher on EC243 (Economic History).

Conference

Peter has presented papers at the conferences of all the major UK, American, European, and international economic or business history societies. 

Contributions to radio and TV programmes

Contributor to PBS documentary Secrets of Selfridges (first broadcast 2013)

Historical consultant for the Blakeway TV documentary A Tale of Two Britains (first broadcast on BBC4, Wednesday 21st October 2009).

Featured historian on two episodes of Radio 4’s The Long View:

Contributor to several other radio programmes, including Broadcasting House, and PM.