Professor Michael Hunter FBA

Intellectual history of late 17th century Britain, especially the early Royal Society and the 'decline of magic'; editions of Robert Boyle and others; visual culture.

Elected 2007

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year elected: 2007
Sections: Early Modern History to 1850
Website: https://www.bbk.ac.uk/about-us/fellows/michael-hunter

Current post

Emeritus Professor of History, Birkbeck College, University of London

Past appointments

Birkbeck College University of London Emeritus Professor of History

2011 -

Birkbeck College University of London Professor of History, Birkbeck College, University of London

1992 - 2011

Publications

Boyle: Between God and Science (Yale University Press) First published 2009; paperback 2010

Editions of the Works of Robert Boyle (with Edward B Davis, 14 vols.) 1999-2001

Editions of the Correpondence of Robert Boyle (with Antonio Clericuzio and Lawrence M Principe, 6 vols., 2001) 1999-2001

Science and the Shape of Orthodoxy: Intellectual Change in late 17th-century Britain 1995

The Royal Society and its Fellows, 1660-1700: the Morphology o fan Early Scientific Institution (revised edition) 1994

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Stuart Carroll FBA

Stuart works on the histories of violence, social relations, law, and the emotions in early modern Europe. He is currently working on the Invention of Civil Society, the sequel to Enmity and Violence in Early Modern Europe (2023).

Professor Paul Slack FBA

History

Professor Amanda Vickery FBA

The history of women and gender, love and power, house and home in Britain c 1660-1837; the spatial history of London c 1688-1832; women, beauty and the economy of appearances, 1945-1975; the categories and chronology of women's history