Early Modern History

King’s College London is at the forefront of new approaches to teaching and researching early modern history. Our specialisms connect the political and the social, the intellectual and the religious dimensions of the early modern world.

Early Modern History academic staff in the Department of History:

• Dr Anne Goldgar Cultural & social history in Early Modern Europe
• Dr Laura Gowing Women & gender in Early Modern England; Crime; London; Sex 
• Dr Robert Gray Habsburg Monarchy; Agrarian society & peasantries; Enlightenment & liberalism
  
• Professor Ludmilla Jordanova Early Modern cultural history; Portraiture & identity since 1600; Science & medicine since 1600
• Dr Lucy Kostyanovsky Reformation in England & Europe; Religion & society; Henry VIII
• Dr Ian McBride 18th-century Ireland; Intellectual & cultural history of Early Modern Britain & Ireland
• Dr Niall O'Flaherty Theology, science & social thought in Europe at the beginning of the 19th-century
• Dr Adam Sutcliffe Western European Jewish History and Intellectual History (1650-1850)