James Russell Raven LittD FBA FSA (born 13 April 1959) is a British scholar specialising in the history of the book.
[3] Born in Colchester, James Raven attended The Gilberd School in the town.
Raven gave the Panizzi Lectures in 2010 on "London Booksites: Places of Printing and Publication before 1800".
The lectures have been described as groundbreaking in their approach to various histories of place and space in publishing and book selling.
He chairs the Lindemann Trust which awards annual fellowships in the sciences for postdoctoral research in the US by British and Commonwealth citizens.