Olwen Hufton

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Dame Olwen Hazel Hufton (* 1938 ) is a British historian . She is considered an early modern expert and an outstanding representative of women's history. Her focus is on social history, the history of poverty, religion and work, with a comparative Western European history.

academic career

Hufton's professional career began in 1963 at the University of Leicester . In 1966 she moved to the University of Reading , where she taught for more than 20 years before going to Harvard University in the USA . From 1987 on she was appointed to the newly established professorship for Modern History and Women's Studies . After four years she returned to Europe and in 1991 became Professor of History and Civilization at the European University Institute in Florence . In 1997 she became Professor of History at Oxford in Great Britain . In 2003 she retired. Olwen Hufton is a Fellow Emeritus at Merton College, Oxford University.

Honors

Olwen Hufton has been a Professorial Research Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London since 2006 . She has been a Fellow of the British Academy since 1998 . Hufton is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society . In 2004 she was made Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE).

Literature (selection)

• Europe: Privilege and Protest 1730–1789. Oxford 2000.
• The Prospect Before her: A History of Women in Western Europe, I: 1500-1800. London 1995.

Translation: Women's Life: A European History. 1500-1800. From the English by Holger Fliessbach. Frankfurt: Fischer, 1998.

• Women and the Limits of Citizenship in the French Revolution. Toronto 1992.
• The Poor of Eighteenth-Century France. Oxford 1974.
• Bayeux in the Late Eighteenth Century. Oxford 1967.

Web links

• Gordon Campbell: Professor Dame Olwen Hufton FBA (Doctor of Letters) . Press release from the University of Leicester

Individual evidence

1. ↑ For the pronunciation of the Welsh first name, see. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6RpRORLI50 .
2. ↑ Profile . From: British Academy website , accessed April 23, 2019