Professor Peter J Marshall FBA

Fellow type: UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected: 1992
Year of death: 2025
Subjects: History
Sections: Early Modern History to 1850
Website: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/history/people/staff/emeritus/marshall.aspx

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Rhodes Professor of Imperial History Emeritus, King's College London

Past appointments

King's College London University of London Rhodes Professor of Imperial History Emeritus, King's College London

1993 -

King's College London University of London Rhodes Professor of Imperial History

1980 - 1993

King's College London University of London Lecturer, Reader then Professor of History

1959 - 1980

Publications

East India fortunes: the British in Bengal in the 18th century (1976)

The speeches and writings of Edmund Burke (vols 5, 6 and 7) (1981, 1991, 2000)

Oxford history of the British Empire: vol II, the 18th century (1998)

The Making and Unmaking of Empires: Britain, India, and America c. 1750-1783 Oxford, (2005)

Remaking the British Atlantic: The United States and the British Empire after American Independence Oxford, (2012)

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Sir Simon Schama FBA

Early modern European social, political and cultural history; history of the Jewish people; history of art and culture

Professor Margot Finn FBA

British history in the 18th and 19th centuries, including material culture, gender, law and colonialism

Professor Lorraine Daston FBA

History of science, 16th-19th centuries.: probability and statistics; scientific observation; objectivity; formal theories of rationality

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Professor Peter J Marshall FBA

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Rhodes Professor of Imperial History Emeritus, King's College London

Past appointments

King's College London University of London Rhodes Professor of Imperial History Emeritus, King's College London

King's College London University of London Rhodes Professor of Imperial History

King's College London University of London Lecturer, Reader then Professor of History

Publications

East India fortunes: the British in Bengal in the 18th century (1976)

The speeches and writings of Edmund Burke (vols 5, 6 and 7) (1981, 1991, 2000)

Oxford history of the British Empire: vol II, the 18th century (1998)

The Making and Unmaking of Empires: Britain, India, and America c. 1750-1783 Oxford, (2005)

Remaking the British Atlantic: The United States and the British Empire after American Independence Oxford, (2012)

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Sir Simon Schama FBA

Professor Margot Finn FBA

Professor Lorraine Daston FBA

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Professor Peter J Marshall FBA

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Rhodes Professor of Imperial History Emeritus, King&#039;s College London

Past appointments

King's College London University of London Rhodes Professor of Imperial History Emeritus, King's College London

King's College London University of London Rhodes Professor of Imperial History

King's College London University of London Lecturer, Reader then Professor of History

Publications

East India fortunes: the British in Bengal in the 18th century (1976)

The speeches and writings of Edmund Burke (vols 5, 6 and 7) (1981, 1991, 2000)

Oxford history of the British Empire: vol II, the 18th century (1998)

The Making and Unmaking of Empires: Britain, India, and America c. 1750-1783 Oxford, (2005)

Remaking the British Atlantic: The United States and the British Empire after American Independence Oxford, (2012)

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Sir Simon Schama FBA

Professor Margot Finn FBA

Professor Lorraine Daston FBA

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