History

Frank Prochaska

Lecturer
Senior Research Scientist

Office:    HGS 213

Phone:  (203) 432-1367

Email:    frank.prochaska@yale.edu

Links:    Recent Publications

 

Born in Ohio, Frank Prochaska has taught, researched and published British history for more than thirty years. He received his PhD from Northwestern in 1972. Since then, most of his life has been spent in Britain. (He is married to Alice Prochaska, the University Librarian of Yale, and has dual British/US citizenship.) He has taught in various American and British Universities, including Northwestern, the University of Wisconsin, Madison, St. Hugh's College, Oxford, University College, London University, Royal Holloway College, London University, and Yale in London. He has been a Research Fellow at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London University, and a Visiting Fellow, All Soul's College, Oxford. He is currently an Honorary Fellow, Institute of Historical Research, London University and an Honorary Research Fellow, Royal Holloway College, London University, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He contributes to media programs and the press in both Britain and the US on such subjects as contemporary social policy and the modern British monarchy, and is currently writing a book about American perceptions of the British monarchy.

Publications

Books

• Christianity and Social Service in Modern Britain: The Disinherited Spirit (Oxford University Press, 2006).
• Royal Lives, selected and introduced by Frank Prochaska (Oxford University Press, 2002).
• Schools of Citizenship: Charity and Civic Virtue (Civitas, 2002).
• The Republic of Britain (Penguin Books, 2000, paperback 2001).
• Royal Bounty: The Making of a Welfare Monarchy (Yale University Press, 1995).
• Philanthropy and the Hospitals of London: The King's Fund, 1897-1990 (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1992).
• The Voluntary Impulse: Philanthropy in Modern Britain (Faber and Faber, 1988).
• Margaretta Acworth's Georgian Cookery Book, edited with Alice Prochaska (Pavilion Books, 1987).
• Editor, The Europa Biographical Dictionary of British Women (Europa Press, 1983).
• Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1980).

Main research articles

• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 9 articles (Oxford University Press, 2004).
• 'George V and Republicanism, 1917-1919', Twentieth Century British History, vol. 10, no. 1, 1999.
• 'The King's Fund: A Century of Hospital Charity', The Lancet, vol 349, (February 8, 1997).
• 'Philanthropy' in the Cambridge Social History of Britain, 1750-1950, ed. F.M.L. Thompson, vol. 3 (Cambridge University Press, 1990).
• 'A Mother's Country, Mothers' Meetings and Family Welfare in Britain, 1850-1950', vol 74, History (1989).
• 'Body and Soul: Bible Nurses and the Poor in Victorian London', Historical Research, vol. 60 (October, 1987).
• 'Female Philanthropy and Domestic Service in Victorian England', Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, vol 54 (1981).
• 'Little Vessels: Children in the 19th-Century Missionary Movement', The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, vol vi (January, 1978).
• 'Charity Bazaars in Nineteenth-Century England', Journal of British Studies (Spring, 1977).
• 'Women and English Philanthropy, 1790-1830', International Review of Social History, vol xix (1974).
• 'English State Trials in the 1790s: A Case Study', Journal of British Studies, vol xiii (November, 1973).
• 'Thomas Paine's The Age of Reason Revisited', Journal of the History of Ideas, vol xxxiii, no 4 (1972).
• 'Public Worship: An Eighteenth-Century Debate', Transactions of the Unitarian Historical Society, vol xv, no 1 (1971).