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 Annette Gordon-Reed FBA

The history of the American Revolution and the Early American Republic, 18th and 19th centuries; slavery In North America, 17th-19th centuries; Thomas Jefferson and the Age of Jefferson

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Professor Amanda Vickery FBA

The history of women and gender, love and power, house and home in Britain c 1660-1837; the spatial history of London c 1688-1832; women, beauty and the economy of appearances, 1945-1975; the categories and chronology of women's history

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Professor James Secord FBA

History of science; science communication; natural history, evolution and geology in the 18th and 19th centuries

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