Professor Ronald Hutton FBA

British history between 1500 and 1700; the history of paganism, shamanism, magic and witchcraft, and of attitudes to those phenomena
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2013
Subjects
History, Religion

Summary

I was born in India of mixed British and Russian parentage, and mostly brought up in England. I took degrees at Cambridge and then Oxford, and held a fellowship at Magdalen College, Oxford, before moving to Bristol University in 1981. I have remained there ever since. I started my career as a historian of early modern Britain, and remain one, but have branched out to acquire interests in the history of paganism, witchcraft and magic and of attitudes to them. I am presently at work on a study of the witch figure.

Current post

Professor of History, University of Bristol

Publications

The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present

Ronald Hutton - Published in 2017 by Yale University Press

Pagan Britain

Ronald Hutton - Published in 2013 by Yale University Press

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