ABSTRACT
Phyllis Mary Deane is Professor Emerita of Economic History in the University of Cambridge. She was born in 1918 in Hong Kong and was educated at the University of Glasgow (M.A. 1940). She served as Research Officer in The National Institute of Economic and Social Research (1941-5), and in the UK Colonial Office (1947-9). She has resided in Cambridge since 1950, when she joined the University’s Department of Applied Economics as Senior Research Officer (1950-61); from 1961 until her retirement in 1983 she was a member of the Cambridge Faculty of Economics as Lecturer, Reader, and Professor of Economic History. She went to North America as a Visiting Fellow at Johns Hopkins University (1956), and as Visiting Professor at the University of Pittsburgh (1969) and at Queen’s University, Ontario (1975). She was editor of The Economic Journal (1969-75), President of the Royal Economic Society (1980-2) and was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1980. Her biographical study, The Life and Times of J. Neville Keynes, discussed in the interview, was published in 2001. The interview was commissioned by the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, as one of their video-taped series, “Conversations with Historians” and was transcribed for publication in the Newsletter. The interview was conducted in Cambridge in the Spring of 1993 by N C, then of the London School of Economics.
