Professor Barry Supple FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Emeritus Fellow
- Year elected
- 1987
- Subjects
- History
- Sections
- Modern History from 1850
Summary
Barry Supple is Emeritus Professor of Economic History at the University of Cambridge. He was educated at Hackney Downs Grammar School, the London School of Economics, and the University of Cambridge. he held academic posts at the Harvard Business School (1955-60), McGill University (1960-62) and the Universities of Sussex (1962-78), Oxford (1978-81) and Cambridge (1981-93) He was elected to the Academy in 1987 and served as Foreign Secretary from 1995 to 1999. He was Director of the Leverhulme Trust (1993-2001), and Principal Consultant to the Lisbet Rausing Charitable Fund (2001-2007). He was Master of St Catharine's College Cambridge (1984-93). He was awarded a CBE in 1999. Research: early modern English commercial fluctuations, modern economic performance, economic policy, business history.
Current post
Professor Emeritus of Economic History, University of Cambridge
Past appointments
Unknown Unknown Director, Leverhulme Trust
1993 - 2001
University of Cambridge Professor of Economic History
1981 - 1993
University of Cambridge Professor Emeritus of Economic History, University of Cambridge
1981 -
University of Oxford Reader in Recent Social and Economic History
1978 - 1981
School for Global studies, University of Sussex Lecturer, Reader, Professor of Economics and Social History
1962 - 1978
Publications
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor David Edgerton FBA
Global history of technology, science and production; political and economic history of the United Kingdom; history of warfare and militarism, including the economic and technological history of war; history of invention, innovation and research policy, especially in the United Kingdom
Professor Sir Hew Strachan FBA
European military history of the 19th and 20th centuries, and especially the First World War; modern strategic studies
