Olwen Hufton
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Dame Olwen H. Hufton, DBE
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(born 1938, Oldham, Lancashire, England)is a historian of early modern Europe and a pioneer of social history and of women's history. Hufton is an expert on Early Modern, western European comparative socio-cultural history with special emphasis on gender, poverty, social relations, religion and work. In 2006 she joined Royal Holloway as a part-time Professorial Research Fellow in the History Department.
Her monographs include The Poor of Eighteenth Century France 1750-1789 (1974) and The Prospect Before Her: A History of Women in Western Europe - Volume One, 1500-1800. Her latest projects are a study of fund raising for charitable and educational initiatives during the Counter Reformation, and finishing the second volume of her history of women, from 1800-2000.
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She was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 2004.
Order of the British Empire
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British Academy
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British Academy
The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national body for the humanities and the social sciences. Its purpose is to inspire, recognise and support excellence in the humanities and social sciences, throughout the UK and internationally, and to champion their role and value.It receives an annual...
(born 1938, Oldham, Lancashire, England)is a historian of early modern Europe and a pioneer of social history and of women's history. Hufton is an expert on Early Modern, western European comparative socio-cultural history with special emphasis on gender, poverty, social relations, religion and work. In 2006 she joined Royal Holloway as a part-time Professorial Research Fellow in the History Department.
Her monographs include The Poor of Eighteenth Century France 1750-1789 (1974) and The Prospect Before Her: A History of Women in Western Europe - Volume One, 1500-1800. Her latest projects are a study of fund raising for charitable and educational initiatives during the Counter Reformation, and finishing the second volume of her history of women, from 1800-2000.
Honours and affiliations
Hufton is a Fellow of the British AcademyBritish Academy
The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national body for the humanities and the social sciences. Its purpose is to inspire, recognise and support excellence in the humanities and social sciences, throughout the UK and internationally, and to champion their role and value.It receives an annual...
and the Royal Historical Society
Royal Historical Society
The Royal Historical Society was founded in 1868. The premier society in the United Kingdom which promotes and defends the scholarly study of the past, it is based at University College London...
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She was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 2004.
Publications
- Bayeux in the Late Eighteenth Century. (Oxford, 1967)
- The Poor of Eighteenth-Century France (Oxford, 1974)
- Women and the Limits of Citizenship in the French RevolutionFrench RevolutionThe French Revolution , sometimes distinguished as the 'Great French Revolution' , was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France and Europe. The absolute monarchy that had ruled France for centuries collapsed in three years...
(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).