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 Javed Majeed FBA
Intellectual and literary history of colonial and postcolonial South Asia; colonialism, nationalism and literature; language politics and ideas of language in South Asia; Islam and colonialism; modern Urdu literature
Professor John Gowlett FBA
The evolution of early human advanced capabilities; origins and development of design form and proportion in artefacts; investigation of early hominin fire use and its effects
Professor Nancy Edwards FBA
The archaeology of Wales and Ireland c. AD400-1150; early medieval inscribed stones and stone sculpture and the archaeology of the church; antiquarians and Welsh archaeology
