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Roy Porter

Roy Porter, who died in March 2002, was a regular, much admired and much envied contributor to the LRB: he was the author of an astonishing number of books, including London: A Social History (1994), The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity (1997) and Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World (2000).

Selected bibliography

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In the LRB archive

subscriber-only content F for Felon · 4 April 2002

  • Policing and Punishment in London 1660-1750: Urban Crime and the Limits of Terror by J.M. Beattie

Tissue Wars · 2 March 2000

  • The River: A Journey Back to the Source of HIV and Aids by Edward Hooper

Not currently in the LRB archive

 not available in archive The Need for Buddies · 22 June 2000

  • British Clubs and Societies 1580-1800: The Origins of an Associational World by Peter Clark

 not available in archive Why Mr Fax got it wrong · 5 March 1998

  • English Population History from Family Reconstitution 1580-1837 by E.A. Wrigley and R.S. Davies
  • The Savage Wars of Peace: England, Japan and the Malthusian Trap by Alan Macfarlane