Professor Alison Shell FBA

Shakespeare and religion; Reformation and Counter-Reformation literature; the vernacular and neo-Latin writing of post-Reformation British Catholics; the literature of Anglicanism; early modern book history and manuscript studies.
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Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2024
Honours
FBA

Current post

University College London Professor of Early Modern Studies, Department of English

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Professor Alastair Hamilton FBA

Oriental and African Studies Oriental Studies Early Modern History Intellectual History - History Middle East

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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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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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