Professor Peter Dickson FBA

Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
1988
Year of birth
1929
Year of death
2021
Subjects
History

Last post

University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford Emeritus Professor of Early Modern History

Past appointments

University of Oxford Reader in Modern History, Professor of Early Modern History

1978 - 1996

St Catherine's College, University of Oxford Fellow

1960 - 1996

Publications

The financial revolution in England. A study in the development of public credit, 1688-1756 (1967, revised 1993)

Finance and government under Maria Theresia, 1740-1780 (2 vols), (1987)

The Sun Insurance office, 1710-1960 (1960)

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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 Richard Whatmore FBA

The history of political thought and political economy from the 17th century to the present, with focus on small states and free states, empire and commerce; the historiography of intellectual history

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Dr Nicholas Rodger FBA

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