Peter R. Ghosh (/ɡəʊʃ/; gauche;[1] born December 1954, Sutton Coldfield) is a British historian, specialising in the history of ideas and historiography.
[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.
[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.