Olwen Hufton

Dame Olwen H. Hufton, DBE, FBA, FRHistS (born 1938, Oldham, Lancashire, England)^[1]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 Academy and the Royal Historical Society.

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 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).

External links

• Bedford Centre News
• Olwen Hufton profile
• Directory of Fellows of the British Academy

References

1. ^ Birth registered in 1938 at Oldham, Lancashire per Findmypast

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Name	Hufton, Olwen
Alternative names
Short description	British academic, educator and writer
Date of birth	1938
Place of birth	Oldham, Lancashire, England, UK
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