Professor Ronald Hutton FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2013
- Subjects
- History, Religion
- Sections
- Archaeology , Early Modern History to 1850
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
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Sean Connolly FBA
Religion, politics and cultural change in post-Restoration Ireland; civic culture and urban development in Victorian Belfast; the Irish diaspora seen in the context of the development of the world economy
Professor Dr Thomas Kaufmann FBA
History of Christianity in early modern period; theological and cultural history of the Reformation; history of the relations between Christian denominations, Judaism and Islam; history of church history
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
