George E. Lane
British historian
George E. Lane is a British historian and author.
After "many years living and working in the Middle East and Asia", some details of which appeared in 1980, in two editions of the British motorbike magazine “Bike”, Lane began studying at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in 1991. He earned a bachelor's degree in history and Persian in 1994, a master's degree in history in 1996, and a PhD in history in 2001. He is a senior teaching fellow in History of the Middle East and Central Asia at the SOAS.
Books
Early Mongol Rule in Thirteenth-Century Iran: A Persian Renaissance (Routledge, 2003)
Genghis Khan and Mongol Rule (Greenwood, 2004)
Daily Life in the Mongol Empire (Greenwood, 2006)
Lane, George, ed. (2018). The Mongols in Iran: Qutb Al-Din Shirazi's Akhbar-i Moghulan. Abingdon-on-Thames: Routledge. ISBN 9780367607043.
The public source identifies “George E. Lane” as british historian. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around George, Lane and British.
Why this record matters
A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “George E. Lane”, the useful work is to connect “british historian” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.
Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 12, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q115813599. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1980, 1991, 1994 and 1996.
Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.
- Establishing names and roles
- Building a first chronology
- Locating cited institutions
Personal papers, civil or court records, institutional files and the scholarship cited by the source.
Three-step research path
- Establish the record: confirm the title “George E. Lane”, its source revision and the description used here.
- Expand the search: follow George E. Lane primary sources, George E. Lane archive and George research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
- Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.
Questions for further research
- Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “George E. Lane”?
- Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
- How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
Search terms from this dossier
This entry incorporates text from “George E. Lane” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.