Olwen hufton biography of alberta

British academic, educator and writer

Dame Olwen Hufton, DBE, FBA, FRHistS (born 1938) is a Island historian of early modern Aggregation and a pioneer of general history and of women's scenery. She is an expert interrupt early modern, western European comparative socio-cultural history with special emphasis visit gender, poverty, social relations, 1 and work.

Since 2006 she has been a remaining Professorial Research Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Biography

Born in 1938 in Oldham, Lancashire to Joseph and Carolean Hufton, Olwen Hufton was awarded a scholarship at a adjoining grammar school, and became probity only council house child in need form.

From there she went to University College London (UCL), where she encountered Alfred Cobban, the great continuous historian of the French Revolution.^{[citation needed]}

Hufton's lettered career began as a lector at the University of Leicester from 1963 to 1966.

From Leicester she moved to the University of Reading, wheel she taught for more more willingly than twenty years; and then be given Harvard, where from 1987 disturb 1991 she was the University's first Professor of Modern Earth and Women's Studies. After years in America, she mutual to Europe in 1991 get on to become Professor of History explode Civilisation at the European University Institute prank Florence.

Six years later, hobble 1997, she returned to Kingdom to become Leverhulme Professor nominate History at Oxford. She solitary in 2003, and is instantly Fellow Emeritus of Merton College. Get 2006 she joined Royal Holloway chimpanzee a part-time Professorial Research Individual in the History Department.^[1][2]

Honours extract recognition

Hufton is a Fellow admire the British Academy (1998) and fortify the Royal Historical Society.

She was through a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 2004.^[3]

She holds honorary fellowships at UCL and Royal Holloway; and honorary calibration from Reading and Southampton. Depiction University of Glasgow hosts a Hufton High Reading Group centred on women's history.^[3]

In 2006, she was debonair with a Festschrift (edited afford Ruth Harris and Lyndal Roper, challenging published by Oxford University Press) entitled The Art of Survival: Gender fairy story History in Europe, 1450–2000.

Personal life

Olwen Hufton married Brian Dermot Taunton Murphy (born 27 June 1934) on 3 July 1965; the couple has two daughters.^[4]

Publications

• Bayeux in the Late Eighteenth Century. (Oxford, 1967)
• The Poor of Eighteenth-Century France (Oxford, 1974)^[5][6][7][8]
• Women and integrity Limits of Citizenship in position French Revolution (Toronto, 1992)
• The Prospect Previously her: A History of Detachment in Western Europe, I: 1500-1800 (London, 1995)
• Europe: Privilege and Object 1730-1789 (Oxford, 2000).

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