Olwen Hufton
Dame Olwen Hufton,DBE,FBA,FRHistS(born 1938) is a British historian of early modern Europe and a pioneer of social history and of women's history. She is an expert onearly modern,western European comparative socio-cultural history with special emphasis on gender, poverty, social relations, religion and work. Since 2006 she has been a part-time Professorial Research Fellow atRoyal Holloway, University of London.
Biography
[edit]Born in 1938 inOldham,Lancashireto Joseph and Caroline Hufton, Olwen Hufton was awarded a scholarship at a local grammar school, and became the onlycouncil housechild in her form. From there she went toUniversity College London(UCL), where she encounteredAlfred Cobban,the great revisionist historian of theFrench Revolution.[citation needed]
Hufton's academic career began as a lecturer at theUniversity of Leicesterfrom 1963 to 1966. From Leicester she moved to theUniversity of Reading,where she taught for more than twenty years; and then toHarvard,where from 1987 to 1991 she was the University's first Professor of Modern History and Women's Studies. After four years in America, she returned to Europe in 1991 to become Professor of History and Civilisation at theEuropean University Institutein Florence. Six years later, in 1997, she returned to Britain to become Leverhulme Professor of History atOxford.She retired in 2003, and is now Fellow Emeritus ofMerton College.In 2006 she joinedRoyal Hollowayas a part-time Professorial Research Fellow in the History Department.[1][2]
Honours and recognition
[edit]Hufton is a Fellow of theBritish Academy(1998) and of theRoyal Historical Society.She was made aDame Commander of the Order of the British Empire(DBE) in 2004.[3]
She holds honorary fellowships atUCLandRoyal Holloway;and honorary degrees fromReadingandSouthampton.TheUniversity of Glasgowhosts a Hufton Postgraduate Reading Group centred on women's history.[3]
In 2006, she was presented with aFestschrift(edited by Ruth Harris andLyndal Roper,and published byOxford University Press) entitledThe Art of Survival: Gender and History in Europe, 1450–2000.
Personal life
[edit]Olwen Hufton married Brian Dermot Taunton Murphy (born 27 June 1934) on 3 July 1965; the couple has two daughters.[4]
Publications
[edit]- Bayeux in the Late Eighteenth Century.(Oxford, 1967)
- The Poor of Eighteenth-Century France(Oxford, 1974)[5][6][7][8]
- Women and the Limits of Citizenship in theFrench Revolution(Toronto, 1992)
- The Prospect Before her: A History of Women in Western Europe, I: 1500-1800(London, 1995)
- Europe: Privilege and Protest 1730-1789(Oxford, 2000).
References
[edit]- ^"Professor Dame Olwen Hufton FBA (Doctor of Letters) — University of Leicester".www2.le.ac.uk.
- ^"Microsoft Word - Hufton.doc"(PDF).Retrieved17 March2020.
- ^ab"Dame Olwen Hufton".The British Academy.
- ^"Person Page".thepeerage.
- ^Rosen, George (1976). "Review of The Poor of Eighteenth-Century France, 1750-1789".Eighteenth-Century Studies.10(1): 119–121.doi:10.2307/2737822.JSTOR2737822.
- ^Golden, Richard M. (1975). "Review of The Poor of Eighteenth-Century France, 1750-1789".The Journal of Economic History.35(4): 868–870.doi:10.1017/S0022050700074015.JSTOR2119209.S2CID154475824.
- ^Forrest, Alan (1977). "Review of The Poor of Eighteenth-Century France, 1750-1789".Social History.2(4): 539–541.JSTOR4284682.
- ^Chartier, Roger (1977). "Review of The Poor of Eighteenth-Century France 1750-1789".Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales.32(2): 296–299.doi:10.1017/S0395264900150796.JSTOR27580430.S2CID183368214.
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- Living people
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- People from Oldham
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