London'). In 1976 Raven joined the English-Speaking Union and has been President of the Colchester Branch of the ESU since 1990 and serves as a national Governor (2000-6 and 2012-), Deputy Chairman, and since 2019, Chairman in succession to Lord Paul Boateng. He also chairs the Lindemann Trust which awards annual Fellowships in the sciences for postdoctoral research in the US by British and Commonwealth citizens. Between 2010 and 2020 he served as a Trustee of Marks Hall, Essex, and the Friends of St Andrews' Fingringhoe. He is a member of the Pilgrims and the Mid-Atlantic Club. He is the author, among other books, of What is the History of the Book?, Publishing Business, Bookscape, The Business of Books: Booksellers and the English Book Trade 1450-1850 and Judging New Wealth: Popular Publishing and Responses to Commerce in England, 1750-1800. He is also Director of the Cambridge Project for the Book Trust (founded 1990) and a well-known writer and broadcaster on cultural and social history. See also Book trade in the United Kingdom Books in the United Kingdom Selected published works Judging New Wealth: Popular Publishing and Responses to Commerce in England, 1750-1800 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992) The Practice and Representation of Reading in England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), with Helen Small and Naomi Tadmor (eds.) (ed.) Free Print and Non-Commercial Publishing (London and Vermont: Ashgate Press, 2000) The English Novel 1770-1829 2 vols.(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), with Peter Garside and Rainer Schöwerling) London Booksellers and American Customers: Transatlantic Literary Community and the Charleston Library Society, 1748-1811 (Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2002) (ed.)Lost Libraries: The Destruction of Book Collections Since Antiquity (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). The Business of Books: Booksellers and the English Book Trade 1450-1850 (London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007). – awarded the De Long prize for 2008 References 1959 births Living people Fellows of Pembroke College, Cambridge Academics of the University of Essex Fellows of the British Academy British historians Alumni of Clare College, Cambridge People from Colchester Fellows of Magdalene College, Cambridge Fellows of Mansfield College, Oxford