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Dr John Darwin FBA

The history of empires, expecially the British Empire in its global setting. The rise & decline of imperial port-cities, 1830s-1930s

Elected 2012

Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2012
Sections
Modern History from 1850
Website
https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-john-darwin

John Darwin was awarded a CBE for services to the study of Global History in 2020.

Current post

Professor of Global and Imperial History, Nuffield College, Oxford

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Gareth Stedman Jones FBA

British and European history, particularly the history of political thought from the aftermath of the French Revolution to the First World War

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Professor Janet Browne FBA

History of science, especially the natural history sciences of the 18th and 19th centuries; the rise and spread of evolutionary thought; Charles Darwin; the role of commemorations and biography in science

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Professor Sunil Amrith FBA

The history of modern South and Southeast Asia; the history of Asian migration; Asian and global environmental history.

Sunil Amrith FBA

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