My friend and former colleague Frank O’Gorman, who has died aged 84, spent his entire career in the department of history at the University of Manchester, advancing from an assistant lectureship in 1965 to a personal chair in 1992 before retiring in 2002.
A gifted teacher and a rigorous but popular tutor, he wrote a number of books on 18th- and 19th-century topics, including The Long Eighteenth Century (1997), which examined the transformational change that took place in Britain between the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and the Reform Act of 1832.
