Derek Keene

Derek John Keene, FRHistS (27 December 1942–April 2021^[1]), was an English urban historian. He was founding director of the Centre for Metropolitan History from 1987 to 2002 at the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) and then Leverhulme Professor of Comparative Metropolitan History until retirement in 2008; since which he was Emeritus Professor of Metropolitan History and an honorary fellow of the IHR.

^ @CHPPC_IHR (19 April 2021). "The @CHPPC_IHR team & our wider community share this sadness at the death of Derek Keene, Professor of Comparative Metropolitan History and founder of the IHR Centre for Metropolitan History (its research now continued in the @CHPPC_IHR)" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 19 April 2021 – via Twitter.

[1] @CHPPC_IHR (19 April 2021). "The @CHPPC_IHR team & our wider community share this sadness at the death of Derek Keene, Professor of Comparative Metropolitan History and founder of the IHR Centre for Metropolitan History (its research now continued in the @CHPPC_IHR)" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 19 April 2021 – via Twitter.

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