David Reeder

David A Reeder (5 May 1931 – 1 August 2005) was an English historian at the University of Leicester.^[1] He pursued a career in urban history and the history of education, co-founding the Urban History Group and editing the Urban History Yearbook for nine years.^[1]

Early life

Reeder was born in Kingston upon Hull, the son of a railway fireman, and evacuated to Rawcliffe and then York during World War II.^[2]

After graduating from Nunthorpe Grammar School, Reeder won a scholarship at the University of Durham, where he served as Editor of Palatinate.^[3] He was a member of Hatfield College, where he was Captain of Table Tennis in 1950.^[4] Reeder took his PhD at the University of Leicester.

Publications

• The Victorian City: Images and Realities (1973)^[5]
• Urban Education In The Nineteenth Century (1977)^[6]
• Educating Our Masters (1980)^[7]