Professor Alastair Hamilton FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2004
- Subjects
- History
- Sections
- Early Modern History to 1850
Summary
Alastair Hamilton was born in Barnet on 20 May 1941. He was educated at Eton and King's College Cambridge, where he read Modern Languages and received his PhD in Divinity in 1982. In 1977 He was appointed to lecture in English literature at the University of Urbino in Italy. Having specialised in the study of the Radical Reformation and Western relations with the Arab world, he became the Dr C. Louise Thijssen-Schoute Professor of the History of Ideas at the University of Leiden in Holland in 1985, and in 1987 Professor of the History of the Radical Reformation (Anabaptistica) at the University of Amsterdam. In 2003 he was awarded an S.T. Lee Fellowship and in 2004 was appointed the Arcadian Visiting Research Professor at the School of Advanced Study, London University, attached to the Warburg Institute.
Current post
Senior Research Fellow, The Warburg Institute, University of London
Publications
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Anthony Milton FBA
Politics and religion in early modern Britain, Ireland and Europe; the Church of England 1560-1700; anonymity; Asian and European representations of East/West politico-cultural divisions in the 19th and 20th centuries
Professor Jane Humphries FBA
Eighteenth & nineteenth century economic history: industrialization; wellbeing; labour markets; women's work and family lives; child labour; anthropometrics
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
