Professor Marianne Elliott FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2002
- Subjects
- History
Summary
Marianne Elliott is from Belfast, Northern Ireland. She has been educated at Queen's University Belfast and the University of Oxford. As well as her academic career, she has had an important role in the process of promoting peace in Northern Ireland, particularly as a member of the international Opsahl Commission from 1992-93 and co-authoring its report, A Citizens' Inquiry (1993). She co-founded the Conference of Irish Historians in Britain in 1976 with Roy Foster and the British Association for Irish Studies in 1985. She was awarded an OBE for services to peace in Northern Ireland and Irish Studies in Britain as part of the 2000 Birthday Honours. In 2005, she delivered the Ford Lectures at Oxford and went on to be awarded the Irish Presidential Distingiushed Service Award in 2017 and the Christopher Ewart Biggs Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018.
Current post
Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool Professor Emeritus
Past appointments
Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool Blair Chair and Director
1997 - 2015
University of Liverpool Andrew Geddis and John Rankin Professor of Modern History
1993 - 2008
Birkbeck College University of London Lecturer in History
1991 - 1993
University of Manchester Simon Research Fellow
1988 - 1990
University of Liverpool Research Fellow
1984 - 1987
Publications
Other Fellows of the British Academy
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
Professor Carolyn Steedman FBA
The social & cultural history of the English eighteenth & nineteenth centuries, with a focus of categories such as 'law' & 'labour' in the making of seflhood & identity
Professor Andrew Pettegree FBA
History of the Reformation; book history (Universal Short Title Catalogue) and book collecting, history of libraries, media landscapes and the history of news
