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 David Arnold FBA

Modern History; History of South Asia, History of Science; History of Medicine; Social History

David-Arnold-FBA

Professor David M Anderson FBA

History and politics of eastern and southern Africa; environmental history of East Africa since 1800; histories of colonial and post-colonial violence, conflict, and insurrection

David M Anderson FBA

Professor Sunil Amrith FBA

The history of modern South and Southeast Asia; the history of Asian migration; Asian and global environmental history.

Sunil Amrith FBA

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