Olwen Hufton
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Professor Dame Olwen Hufton, DBE, B.A., Ph.D., FBA, F.R.Hist.S. (b. 1938) is one of the foremost historians of early modern Europe and a pioneer of social history and of women's history.
Her The Poor of Eighteenth Century France 1750-1789 (1974) examined the experiences of poverty, while The Prospect Before Her: A History of Women in Western Europe - Volume One, 1500-1800 is a rich, engaging and accessible study of the experience of early modern woman. Professor Hufton is currently writing a study of fundraising for charitable and educational initiatives in the Roman Catholic Counter Reformation and finishing the second volume of her history of women, from 1800 to 2000.
In 2006 she joined Royal Holloway as a part-time Professorial Research Fellow in the History Department. She is an expert on Early Modern, western European comparative socio-cultural history with special emphasis on gender, poverty, social relations, religion and work. She is currently writing a study of fundraising for charitable and educational initiatives during the Counter-Reformation and finishing the second volume of her History of Women: 1800-2000.
[edit] 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 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).
