Born 1955. Keith David Malcolm Snell, FRAI, is an Anglo-Welsh academic historian who holds a personal chair as Professor of Rural and Cultural History at the University of Leicester. He was born in Tanganyika (now Tanzania), and brought up in rural Wales and many tropical African countries, notably Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, the Congo, and Nigeria. Keith Snell studied history at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) first-class degree. He remained at the University of Cambridge and, with funding from the Social Science Research Council, completed his doctoral studies at Trinity Hall as well. His Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), supervised by Professor Sir Tony Wrigley at The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, was awarded in 1979.[1] Snell was then appointed Research Fellow in the Humanities at King's College, Cambridge, 1979-1983, before taking up a lectureship in the Department of Economics and Related Studies at the University of York. Snell then moved to the University of Leicester as Lecturer in Regional Popular Cultures in the University's postgraduate Department of English Local History; he was subsequently promoted to Reader and from 2002 Professor of Rural and Cultural History.[1] He was Director of the Centre for English Local History, University of Leicester, 2009-2018, when he took early retirement. In 1991, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. He is co-founder and co-editor (from 1990) of the Cambridge University Press journal Rural History: Economy, Society and Culture. He has published over 80 academic articles and published books. abridged from Wikipedia. Year of birth from Google