Ian Wallace Archer FRHistS is a historian of early modern London and the Robert Stonehouse Tutorial Fellow in History at Keble College, University of Oxford.
[1][2] After graduating from Altrincham Grammar School for Boys and Trinity College, Oxford,[3] Archer started his academic career in 1986 as a research fellow at Girton College, University of Cambridge.
In 1989 he moved to Downing College, Cambridge where he was director of studies in history until 1991.
[1] In 1991 Archer published his first monograph, The Pursuit of Stability: Social Relations in Elizabethan London, based on his DPhil thesis which was supervised by Penry Williams.
[8] He is the chair of the education committee at the London Academy of Excellence Stratford, an Ofsted outstanding Free School.