Professor Laurence Brockliss FBA

The history of education, science and medicine in Europe 1500-1914; the social history of knowledge creation and diffusion; the history of childhood
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2019
Subjects
History

Current post

Emeritus Professor of Early Modern French History, University of Oxford; Emeritus Fellow, Magdalen College Oxford

Past appointments

University of Oxford CUF Professor in Early Modern French History

2002 - 2017

Magdalen College Oxford Tutor and Fellow in History

1984 - 2017

University of Oxford CUF Lecturer, then Reader in History

1984 - 2002

Publications

From Provincial Savant to Parisian Naturalist: The Recollections of Pierre-Joseph Amoreux

Laurence Brockliss - Published in 2017 by Voltaire Foundation

The University of Oxford: A History

L. W. B. Brockliss - Published in 2016 by Oxford University Press

Calvet’s Web: Enlightenment and Republic of Letters in Eighteenth-Century France

L. W. B. Brockliss - Published in 2002 by Oxford University Press

The Medical World of Early Modern France

Laurence Brockliss and Colin Jones - Published in 1997 by Oxford University Press

French Higher Education in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: A Cultural History

L. W. B. Brockliss - Published in 1987 by Oxford University Press

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Early and 19th-century North America; Indigenous, colonial, environmental, and borderlands history; comparative and global histories of empires, Indigenous and nomadic societies in world history

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Professor Louise Archer FBA

Educational identities and inequalities, particularly in relation to social class, gender and race/ethnicity and equitable participation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)

Lousie Archer FBA

Professor Sir Christopher Clark FBA

The history of 18th-, 19th- and 20th-century Prussia, Germany and Europe, especially the history of religion and religious conflict, the impact of the revolutions of 1848, the outbreak of the First World War and variations in the historical experience of

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