Professor Nicholas Canny FBA

History, especially the History of Early Modern Ireland, Britain and Europe and Atlantic History
Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2005
Subjects
History

Current post

Emeritus Professor of History, National University of Ireland, Galway

Past appointments

Scientific Council, European Research Council

2012 - 2015

National University of Ireland Emeritus Professor of History

2009 -

Royal Irish Academy President

2008 - 2011

National University of Ireland Professor of History

1979 - 2009

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Robert J. Mayhew FBA

The interface of historical geography and intellectual history, in particular the intellectual history of British geography books, demography and migration, c 1660-1900

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Professor Joachim Whaley FBA

The Holy Roman Empire in its European context from the fifteenth century to 1806; the legacy of the Holy Roman Empire in German-speaking central Europe from 1806 to the present

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Dr Toby Barnard FBA

The political, social and cultural histories of Ireland and England, c.1600-1800.

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