Howell Harris is a professor of history at Durham University, who has published many books and journal articles on the history of US business. He has also been a member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council's Peer Review College since 2004.
In his spare time he enjoys allotment gardening. https://web.archive.org/web/20080323090922/http://www.dur.ac.uk/h.j.harris/bio-web.htm