Professor Roy Foster FBA

History
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1989
Subjects
History

Current post

Emeritus Professor of Irish History, University of Oxford; Emeritus Professor of Irish History and Literature, QMUL

Past appointments

University of Oxford Emeritus Professor of Irish History

2017 -

Queen Mary University of London Professor of Irish History and Literature

2017 -

University of Oxford Carroll Professor of Irish History, University of Oxford

1991 - 2017

Birkbeck College University of London Professor of Modern British History

1989 - 1991

Publications

Modern Ireland 1600-1972 1988

Paddy and Mr Punch: connections in Irish and English history 1993

W B Yeats, a life. Vol I: The apprentice mage, 1865-1914 1997

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The history of empires, expecially the British Empire in its global setting. The rise & decline of imperial port-cities, 1830s-1930s

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Global history, especially connections between Europe and Asia; economic history; historiography and intellectual history; early modern history

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Professor Rebecca Earle FBA

History of food; colonial and 19th-century Spanish America; history of the body; colonialism, race and identity in early-modern Europe and the Americas; cultural nationalism in Spanish America; history of clothing

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