| Honorific Prefix: | Professor |
| Peter Ghosh | |
| Birth Name: | Peter R. Ghosh |
| Birth Place: | Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, England |
| Nationality: | British |
| Occupation: | Historian and academic |
| Professor of the History of Ideas | |
| Children: | 2 |
| Alma Mater: | Merton College, Oxford Nuffield College, Oxford |
| Doctoral Advisor: | A. F. Thompson |
| Discipline: | History |
| Workplaces: | St Anne's College, Oxford |
Peter R. Ghosh (pronounced as //ɡəʊʃ//; ;[1] born December 1954, Sutton Coldfield) is a British historian, specialising in the history of ideas and historiography.[2] He was Jean Duffield Fellow in Modern History at St Anne's College, Oxford, and Professor of the History of Ideas at the Faculty of History, University of Oxford.[3]
Ghosh read Modern History at Merton College, Oxford as an undergraduate and continued his studies at graduate level at Nuffield College, Oxford, later becoming a Junior Research Fellow there.[4] His doctoral thesis on Victorian finance was supervised by A. F. Thompson.[5]
Ghosh was Jean Duffield Fellow in Modern History at St Anne's College, Oxford from 1982 to his retirement in 2023.[2] In January 2022 he was awarded the Title of Distinction of Professor of the History of Ideas by the University of Oxford.[6]
After retiring he became a Senior Research Fellow at St Anne's College[7] and continued to teach modern history at Jesus College.
He has two related research interests: first, the interface between political ideas and English politics, c. 1850 – 1895; secondly, the evolution of Western European and British ideas, including historiography, from the Enlightenment to the present.[8]
He has written for the London Review of Books[9] and appeared on In Our Time discussing Max Weber.[10]
Ghosh married Helen Kirkby, whom he met as a fellow History undergraduate at Oxford, in 1979.[11] They have two children together.[12] Their son William is an English tutor at Christ Church, Oxford.[13]