Oliver Rackham

Oliver Rackham
Born	Norwich, England
Nationality	United Kingdom
Fields	Botany
Institutions	University of Cambridge
Alma mater	University of Cambridge
Known for	Woodlands
Notable awards	Order of the British Empire (1998)

Oliver Rackham OBE is a Life Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He is also Keeper of the College Silver.

An acknowledged authority on the British countryside, especially trees, woodlands and wood pasture, Rackham has written a number of well-known books, including The History of the Countryside (1986) and one on Hatfield Forest. He has also studied and published extensively on the ecology of Crete, Greece.

In 1998 he was awarded the OBE for "services to Nature Conservation".^[1] In 2006 he was appointed Honorary Professor of Historical Ecology in the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.

On 15 October 2007 Rackham was elected Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge until 1 October 2008.

Selected works

• Rackham, Oliver (1976). Trees and Woodland in the British Landscape. Archaeology in the Field Series (First ed.). London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. ISBN 0-460-04183-5. 

• Rackham, Oliver (1986). The History of the Countryside: The full fascinating story of Britain's landscape. London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. ISBN 0-460-04449-4. 

• Rackham, Oliver (1989). The Last Forest: The story of Hatfield Forest. London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. 

• Rackham, Oliver (1990). Trees and Woodland in the British Landscape. Archaeology in the Field Series (Revised ed.). London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. ISBN 0-460-04786-8. 

• Rackham, Oliver (1996). The Making of the Cretan Landscape. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 0-7190-3647-X. 

• Rackham, Oliver (1998). The Last Forest: The story of Hatfield Forest (Paperback ed.). London: Phoenix Press. ISBN 0-75380-525-1. 

• Rackham, Oliver (2001). Trees and woodland in the British landscape: the complete history of Britain's trees, woods & hedgerows. London: Phoenix Press. ISBN 1-84212-469-2. 

• Grove, A.T.; Rackham, Oliver (2003). The Nature of Mediterranean Europe: An Ecological History (Second printing with corrections ed.). New Haven and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 1-300-10055-8. 

• Rackham, Oliver (2003). The Illustrated History Of The Countryside. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-297-84335-4. 

• Rackham, Oliver (2006). Woodlands. New Naturalist series. London: HarperCollins. ISBN 0-00-720243-1. 

References

1. ^ "New Year Honours: Order of the British Empire, civil (part two)". BBC News. 1997-12-31. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/special_report/for_christmas/_new_year/new_year_honours/43515.stm. Retrieved 2008-03-01. 

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Preceded by Alan Wilson	Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge 2007-2008	Succeeded by Stuart Laing

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