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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 William Doyle FBA

History of eighteenth century Europe, particularly France

Professor David A. Bell FBA

The history of the late-18th and early-19th century "Age of Revolution", with a particular emphasis on political culture and the French Revolution

David Avrom Bell FBA

Professor James Secord FBA

History of science; science communication; natural history, evolution and geology in the 18th and 19th centuries

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