Professor William Doyle FBA

History of eighteenth century Europe, particularly France
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1998
Subjects
History

10-Minute Talks: Napoleon and God

5 May 2021 Professor William Doyle FBA

In this talk to mark the bicentenary of Napoleon's death, William Doyle discusses Napoleon's quarrel with the Catholic Church.

Current post

Professor Emeritus of History and Senior Research Fellow, University of Bristol

Past appointments

University of Bristol Professor Emeritus of History and Senior Research Fellow, University of Bristol

2008 -

University of Bristol Professor of History, University of Bristol

1986 - 2008

University of Nottingham Professor of Modern History

1981 - 1985

University of York Lecturer, Senior Lecturer in History

1967 - 1981

Publications

France and the Age of Revolution:Regimes Old and New from Louis XIV to Napoleon Bonaparte 2013

Origins of the French Revolution 1980

The Oxford history of the French Revolution 1989

Venality: the sale of offices in 18th century France 1996

Aristocracy and its Enemies in the Age of Revolution 2009

Other Fellows of the British Academy

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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Dr Felicity Heal FBA

British social and religious history of the C16th and C17th; social practices of elites, especially hospitality and gift-exchange; the political and cultural nature of religious identity in Britain and Ireland

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Professor Lyndal Roper FBA

The social & cultural history of sixteenth & seventeenth century Germany; gender history; witchcraft; the German Reformation

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