Dame Olwen Hufton FBA

History
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1998
Subjects
History

Current post

Emeritus Fellow, Merton College, Oxford

Past appointments

University of Oxford Leverhulme Research Professor and Senior Research Fellow, Merton College

1997 - 2003

European University Institute, Florence Professor of History

1991 - 1997

Harvard University William Kenan Professor of European History and Women's History

1987 - 1991

Publications

Bayeux in the late 18th century 1967

The poor of 18th century France 1975

The prospect before her: a history of women in Western Europe 16th-18th centuries 1995

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Professor Toby Green FBA

Social and economic history of 15th-19th century Senegambia and West Africa; global inequality in the past and the present; the coloniality of global health; surveillance capitalism.

Toby Green FBA

Professor Brian Cummings FBA

Renaissance humanism and European literature 1450-1700; the history of religion in relation to the history of the book; literary theory and the history of philosophy

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Professor Simon Schaffer FBA

Social & intellectual history of experimental philosophy & exact sciences between the seventeenth & nineteenth centuries; historiography & sociology of scientific knowledge; the sciences & European imperialism

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