Professor Derek Beales FBA

History
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1989
Year of death
2023
Subjects
History

Current post

Professor Emeritus of Modern History and Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge

Past appointments

University of Cambridge Professor Emeritus of Modern History and Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge

1987 -

University of Cambridge Professor of Modern History

1980 - 1997

University of Cambridge University Lecturer in History

1965 - 1980

Sidney Sussex College University of Cambridge Fellow

1955 -

Publications

From Castlereagh to Gladstone, 1815-1885 1969

Joseph II, vol I: In the shadow of Maria Theresa, 1741-1780 1987

Monks, nuns and spoilers: European Catholic monasteries in the age of enlightenment and revolution 2002

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Julian Hoppit FBA

The economic & political history of Britain, 1650-1850, including the history of economic thought.

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Mr Hassoum Ceesay FBA

Hassoum Ceesay's research interests are African colonial and post-colonial history, especially through biographies of women and political leaders, chiefs in British colonial rule, and heritage conservation and interpretation, to bring to the centre those assigned to the margins of Gambian history.

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Professor Alison Light FBA

Modern British cultural and literary history; life-writing, feminism, and the ‘I” in history; Englishness and the idea of class in Britain; writing history across the disciplinary boundaries

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