Professor Peter Dickson FBA

Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
1988
Year of birth
1929
Year of death
2021
Subjects
History

Last post

University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford Emeritus Professor of Early Modern History

Past appointments

University of Oxford Reader in Modern History, Professor of Early Modern History

1978 - 1996

St Catherine's College, University of Oxford Fellow

1960 - 1996

Publications

The financial revolution in England. A study in the development of public credit, 1688-1756 (1967, revised 1993)

Finance and government under Maria Theresia, 1740-1780 (2 vols), (1987)

The Sun Insurance office, 1710-1960 (1960)

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Social & intellectual history of experimental philosophy & exact sciences between the seventeenth & nineteenth centuries; historiography & sociology of scientific knowledge; the sciences & European imperialism

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The English Renaissance and Reformation; literary coteries; Reformation diplomacy

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Professor Michael Braddick FBA

History Early Modern History Early modern state formation; the English civil war; the origins of the British empire. Western Europe

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