Charles Read lectures, examines and supervises for the Faculty of History, where he is a postdoctoral fellow, and the Faculty of Economics, where he is an affiliated lecturer, at the University of Cambridge. His research and teaching interests focus on the economic causes and consequences of famines, financial crises and pandemics in Great Britain and Ireland over the past two centuries. His next book, entitled “Ireland’s Great Famine: Britain’s Biggest Economic-Policy Disaster Re-Examined”, about public policy during the Irish Famine, is out soon.
