Harrison was Professor of
Modern History at the
University of Oxford from 1996 to 2004. He was additionally the editor of
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography from January 2000 to September 2004. Since 2004, he has been an emeritus fellow of
Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Harrison also did a video interview with the Cambridge historian and social anthropologist Alan Macfarlane in 2012, which was also published in prose format. Between 1974 and 1981 Harrison conducted a series of oral history interviews with surviving suffrage campaigners, their relatives and employees, known as
The Suffrage Interviews, or
Oral evidence on the suffragette and suffragist movements: the Brian Harrison interviews. The recordings were deposited with
The Women's Library in 1981, and are now available online via
The British Library of Political and Economic Science. The Library is working on a Wikidata project,
WikiProject LSESuffrageInterviewsProject, which seeks to explore connections between individuals and organizations mentioned within the collection, and make the resource accessible to researchers in new ways. ==Personal life==