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Professor Sir Christopher Bayly FBA

History
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1990
Year of birth
1945
Year of death
2015
Honours
FBA
Sections
Modern History from 1850

Current post

Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History, University of Cambridge

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