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Professor Gertrude Himmelfarb FBA

Elected 1987

Fellow type
International Fellow
Year of birth
1922
Year of death
2019
Year elected
1987
Sections
Modern History from 1850

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Professor Emeritus of History, City University of New York

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Professor Maxine Berg FBA

Global history, especially connections between Europe and Asia; economic history; historiography and intellectual history; early modern history

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Professor Penny Summerfield FBA

Modern British social, cultural and gender history, with a focus on the Second World War; theory and method of the uses of personal narratives as historical sources

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Professor Patricia Clavin FBA

The international and transnational history of the 20th and 21st centuries; internationalism and global organisations, notably the League of Nations; European and US foreign policies, reappraising notions of security; the Great Depression

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