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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Professor Sir Richard Evans FBA

History; Central Europe

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Professor Rosalind (Polly) O’Hanlon FBA

The early modern and colonial history of India; histories of empire, with particular reference to caste and gender; problems in intellectual history and historical methodology in the postcolonial world; history, language and culture of Maharashtra

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Professor Mark Mazower FBA

The history of modern Europe, especially the Balkans and modern Greece; ideas of international governance in historical perspective; historiography and the interconnection between life writing and professional history

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