!!Peter Mathias - Curriculum vitae
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__Official British Honour__
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*Commander of the British Empire (CBE)
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__Academic Honours__
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*1984 Doctor of Letters, Oxford 
*1987 Doctor of Letters, Cambridge
*1987 Honorary Fellowship, Jesus College, Cambridge 
*1995 Honorary Fellowship, Downing College, Cambridge 
*Honorary Degrees: University of Buckingham (1985), Birmingham (1988), Hull (1992), Warwick (1995), De Montfort (1995), East Anglia (1999), Kansai, Japan (2006)
*Honorary Doctorate: Russian Academy of Sciences (2003), Keio, Japan (2008)
*1977 Fellow, The British Academy
*1982 Foreign Member, Royal Danish Academy
*1988 Foreign Member, royal Belgian Academy
*1972 Fellow, Royal Historical Society
*1989 Member, Academia Europaea
*Honorary President, International Economic History Association (President 1974-1978)
*Vice-President, Economic History Society (President 1989-92)
*Business Archives Council (Chairman 1968-72, President 1984-95)
*1979-1989 Honorary Treasurer, British Academy 
*1987-1999 Vice-President, International Economic History Institute, ‘Datini’, Prato, Italy
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__Academic Career__
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*1948-55 Undergraduate and Fellow, Jesus College, Cambridge
*1955-68 Fellow, Tutor, Director of Studies in History, Queen’s College, Cambridge, University Lecturer in History
*1968-87 Chichele Professor of Economic History and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford
*1987-95 Master of Downing College, Oxford
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__Other main positions held__
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*1965-1966 Senior Proctor, Cambridge University
*1972-1987 Curator, Bodleian Library, Oxford
*1994-2000 Chairman, National Advisory Council, British Library
*1992-1998 Member of Beirat, Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin
*2000- present Chairman, Advisory Board, Central European University Press, Budapest
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__Links with Japan__
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*Many academic visits to Japan and links with Japanese economic historians since 1967
*1983-5 Research supervisor to H.I.H. Prince Naruhito, now Crown Prince of Japan, at Oxford, and since then adviser for his research
*1987-95 Close links with Keio University through being Master of Downing College, Cambridge 
*1994- Trustee of Great Britain-Sasakawa Foundation (Chairman 1997-2005, President 2005-)
*2003 Awarded Grand Cordon, Oder of the Rising Sun with Gold Rays (Imperial Japanese decoration)
*2006 – 2008 International Adviser to the President, Keio University
*2006 Visiting Professor, Kansai University, and Honorary Doctorate