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

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Alvin Jackson FBA

Modern Irish and British history, especially the Irish and Scottish unions; the histories of union states and unionisms.

Alvin Jackson FBA

Professor Mary Fulbrook FBA

20th-century German social history; structures & legacies of the Third Reich and the German Democratic Republic (GDR); longer-term German and European history in comparative perspective; the Holocaust and collective violence; historical and social theory

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Professor Carolyn Steedman FBA

The social & cultural history of the English eighteenth & nineteenth centuries, with a focus of categories such as 'law' & 'labour' in the making of seflhood & identity

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