HHB welcomes Peter Scott - Professor of International Business History at Henley Business School, University of Reading - as a HHB Researcher.

Prof. Scott's research interests include: the growth of mass consumption, consumer credit and owner-occupation, together with their impacts on household behaviour; the evolution of mass retailing formats in Britain and the United States; the development of consumer goods industries; and path dependence and technological change.

His monograph Triumph of the South: A Regional Economic History of Britain During the Early Twentieth Century (Aldershot: Ashgate) was awarded the Wadsworth Prize for the best monograph in British business history published in 2007. He has also been the President of the Association of Business Historians.