Alan Baker (geographer) explained

Alan Reginald Harold Baker, FBA (born 1938) is a British geographer. He has been a life fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, since 1970. Having graduated from the University of London with a BA in 1966 and a PhD in 1963, he was a lecturer at the University of London (1963–66) and then the University of Cambridge (1966–2001). He was head of the Department of Geography at Cambridge from 1989 to 1994.^{[1] [2]}

Baker was appointed a chevalier of the Order of Academic Palms in 1997,^[3] was awarded the Royal Geographical Society's Gill Memorial Award in 1974 and its Founders Medal in 2009,^[4] and was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 2010.^[5] He was the subject of a festschrift: Iain S. Black and R. A. Butlin (eds), Place, Culture and Identity: Essays in Historical Geography in Honour of Alan R. H. Baker (Quebec: Presses de l'Université Laval, 2001).

Publications

• (editor, with John D. Hamshere and John Langton) Geographical Interpretations of Historical Sources: Readings in Historical Geography (Newton Abbot: David and Charles, 1970)
• Progress in Human Geography (Newton Abbot: David and Charles, 1972)
• (editor, with R. A. Butlin) Studies of Field Systems in the British Isles (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973)
• (editor, with Gordon Manley and J. B. Harley) Man Made the Land: Essays in English Historical Geography (Newton Abbot: David and Charles, 1973)
• Historical Geography and Geographical Change, Aspects of Geography (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1975)
• (editor, with Mark Billinge) Period and Place: Research Methods in Historical Geography (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982)
• (with Derek Gregory) Explorations in Historical Geography: Interpretative Essays, Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography, vol. 5 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984)
• Fraternity among the French Peasantry: Sociability and Voluntary Associations in the Loire Valley, 1815–1914 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999)
• Geography and History: Bridging the Divide (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003)
• (editor, with Mark Billinge) Geographies of England: The North–South Divide, Material and Imagined (Cambridge: Cambridge university Press, 2004)
• (editor) Home and Colonial: Essays on Landscape, Ireland, Environment and Empire in Celebration of Robin Butlin's Contribution to Historical Geography (London: Historical Geography Research Group, 2004)
• (editor, with Gideon Biger) Ideology and Landscape in Historical Perspective: Essays on the Meanings of Some Places in the Past (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006)
• Amateur Musical Societies and Sports Clubs in Provincial France, 1848-1914: Harmony and Hostility (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
• A French Reading Revolution? The Development, Distribution and Cultural Significance of Bibliothèques Populaires, 1860–1900 (London: Historical Geography Research Group, 2018)
• The Personality of Paris: Landscape and Society in the Long-Nineteenth Century (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022)

Notes and References

1. https://www.geog.cam.ac.uk/people/baker/ "Alan Baker, BA MA PhD DLit"
2. Academic Who's Who (London: Adam and Charles Black, 1973), p. 18.
3. https://www.emma.cam.ac.uk/about/contact/fellows/?id=44 "Dr Alan Baker"
4. https://osf.io/tp3gw "Medals and Awards"
5. https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/alan-baker-FBA/ "Dr Alan Baker FBA"