Professor Michael Hunter FBA

Intellectual history of late 17th century Britain, especially the early Royal Society and the 'decline of magic'; editions of Robert Boyle and others; visual culture.
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2007
Subjects
History, Literature

Current post

Emeritus Professor of History, Birkbeck College, University of London

Past appointments

Birkbeck College University of London Emeritus Professor of History

2011 -

Birkbeck College University of London Professor of History, Birkbeck College, University of London

1992 - 2011

Publications

Boyle: Between God and Science (Yale University Press) First published 2009; paperback 2010

Editions of the Works of Robert Boyle (with Edward B Davis, 14 vols.) 1999-2001

Editions of the Correpondence of Robert Boyle (with Antonio Clericuzio and Lawrence M Principe, 6 vols., 2001) 1999-2001

Science and the Shape of Orthodoxy: Intellectual Change in late 17th-century Britain 1995

The Royal Society and its Fellows, 1660-1700: the Morphology o fan Early Scientific Institution (revised edition) 1994

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Lyndal Roper FBA

The social & cultural history of sixteenth & seventeenth century Germany; gender history; witchcraft; the German Reformation

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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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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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