Professor Laura Gowing FBA

The history of women, gender, language and law in England 1500-1750; early modern London; history of the body; LGBTQ history
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Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2023

Current post

King’s College, London Professor of Early Modern History

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Brian Cummings FBA

Renaissance humanism and European literature 1450-1700; the history of religion in relation to the history of the book; literary theory and the history of philosophy

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Professor Deborah Howard FBA

The art and architecture of Venice and the Veneto; Renaissance architectural history and theory; the relationship between Italy and the Eastern Mediterranean; and music and architecture in the Renaissance

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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

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