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Professor Derek Beales FBA

History
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1989
Year of death
2023
Subjects
History
Sections
Early Modern History to 1850 , Modern History from 1850
Website
https://www.sid.cam.ac.uk/people/professor-derek-beales

Current post

Professor Emeritus of Modern History and Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge

Past appointments

University of Cambridge Professor Emeritus of Modern History and Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge

1987 -

University of Cambridge Professor of Modern History

1980 - 1997

University of Cambridge University Lecturer in History

1965 - 1980

Sidney Sussex College University of Cambridge Fellow

1955 -

Publications

From Castlereagh to Gladstone, 1815-1885 1969

Joseph II, vol I: In the shadow of Maria Theresa, 1741-1780 1987

Monks, nuns and spoilers: European Catholic monasteries in the age of enlightenment and revolution 2002

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Colin Jones FBA

History of France, especially 17th to 19th centuries; French Revolution; history of medicine; cultural history

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Professor Timothy Brook FBA

China’s social, cultural, and international history from the 13th to the 17th century; global history of the 16th and 17th centuries; Asian conflict and human rights in the 20th century

Timothy Brook FBA

Professor Lorraine Daston FBA

History of science, 16th-19th centuries.: probability and statistics; scientific observation; objectivity; formal theories of rationality

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