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 Knud Haakonssen FBA

History of moral, political & legal thought 1600-1800, especially natural law & rights; Enlightenment in Germany, Scandinavia & Scotland; scholarly editions of eighteenth century texts.

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Professor Sean Connolly FBA

Religion, politics and cultural change in post-Restoration Ireland; civic culture and urban development in Victorian Belfast; the Irish diaspora seen in the context of the development of the world economy

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Professor Richard Whatmore FBA

The history of political thought and political economy from the 17th century to the present, with focus on small states and free states, empire and commerce; the historiography of intellectual history

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