Rory Miller

Biography

I was trained as a historian in the stimulating atmosphere of Cambridge in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and came to work in Liverpool shortly afterwards. I have a long-standing interest in Latin America, especially Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina, and now consider myself primarily to be an international business historian. I moved to the Management School when it was founded in 2002, having been both Director of the Institute of Latin American Studies and the first programme director for the MBA (Football Industries), which combined my love of sport, business and Latin America.

Research Interest

After publishing Britain and Latin America in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Longman, 1993), I embarked on fresh archival research intended to analyse the decline of Britain's business position in South America from leadership in 1914 to insignificance a hundred years later. This has involved archival research in the British National Archives, a number of British business archives (in particular Unilever, Reckitt Benckiser, Glaxo, the Bank of London and South America, and several merchant houses). I have also undertaken research in the British Chamber of Commerce archives in Sao Paulo and Buenos Aires.