Professor Linda Colley FBA

History USA, Canada and/or Mexico Western Europe Other (please specify) global history
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1999
Subjects
History

Current post

Shelby M C Davis 1958 Professor of History, Princeton University

Past appointments

Princeton Shelby M C Davis 1958 Professor of History, Princeton University

2003 -

London School of Economics and Political Science University of London Leverhulme Research Professor and School Professor in History, London School of Economics

1998 - 2003

London School of Economics and Political Science University of London Leverhulme Research Professor

1997 -

Yale University Richard M Colgate Professor

1982 - 1997

Christ's College University of Cambridge Fellow

1979 - 1981

Publications

The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History 2006

Acts of Union and Disunion Profile 2014

Namier 1988

In defiance of oligarchy: the Tory party 1714-1760 1982

Britons: forging the nation 1707-1837 1992

Captives: Britain, empire and the world 1600-1850 2002

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Rebecca Earle FBA

History of food; colonial and 19th-century Spanish America; history of the body; colonialism, race and identity in early-modern Europe and the Americas; cultural nationalism in Spanish America; history of clothing

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Dr Susan Brigden FBA

The English Renaissance and Reformation; literary coteries; Reformation diplomacy

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Dr Felicity Heal FBA

British social and religious history of the C16th and C17th; social practices of elites, especially hospitality and gift-exchange; the political and cultural nature of religious identity in Britain and Ireland

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