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 Javed Majeed FBA
Intellectual and literary history of colonial and postcolonial South Asia; colonialism, nationalism and literature; language politics and ideas of language in South Asia; Islam and colonialism; modern Urdu literature
Professor Martin Rudwick FBA
History of earth sciences, especially the reconstruction of the earth's pre-human history, 1750-1850; the history of visual imagery in the natural sciences; epistemic issues in field- and museum-based sciences
Professor Pat Hudson FBA
Processes and causes of industrialisation; the impact of colonialism and imperialism on the metropole; the distribution of income and wealth since the eighteenth century; regional disparities; historical methodology
