Professor Reg Ward FBA

International religious belief and practice in the modern period; nineteenth-century atheism in Central Europe
Year elected
1902
Year of birth
1925
Year of death
2010
Honours
FBA

Current post

Emeritus Professor of Modern History, University of Durham

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Mr Robin Briggs FBA

The social, religious and political history of early modern Europe, especially France; the French Catholic Church and the history of witchcraft

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Professor Richard McCabe FBA

Early modern literature in its historical and intellectual contexts, especially poetry and drama; Edmund Spenser's engagement with Gaelic Ireland, the dynamics of Tudor and Jacobean patronage, the aesthetics of Renaissance tragedy.

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Professor Mark Knights FBA

British and Imperial History 1600-1850; the history of corruption, from early modern to the present; the history of political discourse; print culture; satire and laughter; representation (political, textual and visual).

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