Professor Laurence Brockliss FBA

The history of education, science and medicine in Europe 1500-1914; the social history of knowledge creation and diffusion; the history of childhood

Elected 2019

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year elected: 2019
Sections: Early Modern History to 1850, Education
Website: https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-laurence-brockliss

Current post

Emeritus Professor of Early Modern French History, University of Oxford; Emeritus Fellow, Magdalen College Oxford

Past appointments

University of Oxford CUF Professor in Early Modern French History

2002 - 2017

Magdalen College Oxford Tutor and Fellow in History

1984 - 2017

University of Oxford CUF Lecturer, then Reader in History

1984 - 2002

Publications

From Provincial Savant to Parisian Naturalist: The Recollections of Pierre-Joseph Amoreux

Laurence Brockliss - Published in 2017 by Voltaire Foundation

The University of Oxford: A History

L. W. B. Brockliss - Published in 2016 by Oxford University Press

Calvet’s Web: Enlightenment and Republic of Letters in Eighteenth-Century France

L. W. B. Brockliss - Published in 2002 by Oxford University Press

The Medical World of Early Modern France

Laurence Brockliss and Colin Jones - Published in 1997 by Oxford University Press

French Higher Education in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: A Cultural History

L. W. B. Brockliss - Published in 1987 by Oxford University Press

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Becky Francis FBA

Social identities and inequalities in educational contexts, including educational attainment and experience according to gender, ethnicity and socio-economic background. Education policymaking relating to system improvement and social justice

Professor Simon William Marginson FBA

Higher education and knowledge in political economy, governance, society and culture; especially international, regional and global relations, trajectories and comparisons

Professor Julian Hoppit FBA

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

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