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name: John  Langton
about: Dr John Langton is Emeritus Research Fellow of St John's College, Oxford.Dr John Langton joined the School of Geography and the Environment in 1980 as a lecturer in Geography and Fellow and Tutor in Geography at St John's College, Oxford. Prior to that he lectured at the University of Liverpool (1973-80), University of Cambridge (1968-73), where he was a fellow of St John's College, and University of Manchester (1966-68). He completed his undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in geography at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1960-66. Since retirement from his university and college posts in 2009, Dr Langton has been an Emeritus Research Fellow at St John's College, Oxford. To mark his retirement, Dr Elizabeth Baigent and Prof. Dr John Langton is Emeritus Research Fellow of St John's College, Oxford.Dr John Langton joined the School of Geography and the Environment in 1980 as a lecturer in Geography and Fellow and Tutor in Geography at St John's College, Oxford. Prior to that he lectured at the University of Liverpool (1973-80), University of Cambridge (1968-73), where he was a fellow of St John's College, and University of Manchester (1966-68). He completed his undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in geography at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, 1960-66. Since retirement from his university and college posts in 2009, Dr Langton has been an Emeritus Research Fellow at St John's College, Oxford. To mark his retirement, Dr Elizabeth Baigent and Prof. Robert Mayhew edited a collection of essays by some of his his ex-research students, published as English Geographies 1600-1950: Historical Essays on English Customs, Cultures and Communities in Honour of Jack Langton (St John's College, Oxford, 2009).He has had a life-long interest in the development of geographical thought, and his earliest empirical research was on the geography of economic growth and urbanisation in the Industrial Revolution. From 1979-1994 his research shifted, in association with Prof. Göran Hoppe then of Stockholm University, to peasant farming systems in theory, and that of Sweden in particular. Since 1994, he has primarily been concerned with researching the historical geography of the forests of England and Wales, for which he held research grants from the Marc Fitch Fund and St John's College, Oxford, 2003-2009. Since 2003, this research has been assisted by Dr Graham R. Jones, who is a Senior Visiting Research Associate at the School of Geography and the Environment and manages the Forests and Chases of England and Wales website.Dr Langton was awarded Honorary Life Membership of the IBG Historical Geography Research Group in 1990. His urban population data for Great Britain, 1801-1851, were entered onto the ESRC Social Data Service site as SN 7154 by Prof. Bob Bennett in 2012, and in January 2012 he was awarded an honorary Ph.D. by the University of Uppsala.He is a member of the Editorial Board of Geografiska Annaler, Series B and a referee for: Yale University Press (2006), The Economic History Review (2004; 2005); English History Review (2010); Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift (2005); Journal of Historical Geography (2005, 2012); Environment and Planning A (2005; 2006); Social Science History (2005), as well as Junior Research Fellowships at Christ Church, Oxford (2003) and Newnham, Cambridge (2005).He has also been a referee for ESRC research grants (2002 and 2003), a end of award rapporteur for an ESRC project (2005) and a member of the ESRC project advisory panel (2003-07).He has examined geography and history PhD students at Oxford (2006), Cambridge (2004) and Leicester (2007).Dr Langton contributed to BBC Radio 4, 'Things we have forgotten to remember' presented by Michael Portillo, 18 Dec 2006, and BBC Radio 4, North and South: Across the Great Divide, presented by Ian Marchant, 28 Mar 2012. ...more