Professor Jane Humphries FBA

Eighteenth & nineteenth century economic history: industrialization; wellbeing; labour markets; women's work and family lives; child labour; anthropometrics
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2012
Subjects
Economics, History

Current post

Professor of Economic History, University of Oxford

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Carolyn Steedman FBA

The social & cultural history of the English eighteenth & nineteenth centuries, with a focus of categories such as 'law' & 'labour' in the making of seflhood & identity

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Professor David A. Bell FBA

The history of the late-18th and early-19th century "Age of Revolution", with a particular emphasis on political culture and the French Revolution

David Avrom Bell FBA

Mr Hassoum Ceesay FBA

Hassoum Ceesay's research interests are African colonial and post-colonial history, especially through biographies of women and political leaders, chiefs in British colonial rule, and heritage conservation and interpretation, to bring to the centre those assigned to the margins of Gambian history.

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