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Professor Ronald Hutton FBA

British history between 1500 and 1700; the history of paganism, shamanism, magic and witchcraft, and of attitudes to those phenomena

Elected 2013

Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2013
Sections
Archaeology, Early Modern History to 1850
Website
https://research-information.bristol.ac.uk/en/persons/ronald-e-hutton(3db1ba2d-46a5-4387-8705-a6a3091b14ac).html

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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