!!Linda Colley
!A short laudatio by Robert Allan Houston
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Linda Colley, the Shelby M.C, Davis 1958 Professor of History, is an expert on
Britain since 1700. She favors cross-disciplinary history, and in both her writing and t
her teaching she examines Britain’s past in a broader European, imperial, and global
context. Born in Britain, she graduated from Bristol University with First Class
Honors in history (1972) and completed her Ph.D. in history at Cambridge University
(1977). The first female Fellow of Christ’s College, Cambridge, she moved to Yale
University in 1982. 
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Her first book, In ''Defiance of Oligarchy: The Tory Party 1714-
1760'' (1982), challenged the dominant view by arguing that the Tory party remained
active and potent during its years out of power, exploring the wider consequences of
this in regards to ideas, electoral and popular politics and political action. Britons;
''Forging the Nation 1707-1837'' (1992), which won the Wolfson Prize for History and
which has just been re-issued in a revised 5th paperback edition, investigated how -
and how far - the inhabitants of England, Scotland, and Wales came to see themselves
as British over the course of the 18th and early 19th centuries. 
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In 1998 Professor Colley left Yale to accept a Senior Leverhulme Research Professorship in History at
the London School of Economics. Supported by this award, she spent the next five
years researching the experiences of the thousands of Britons who were taken captive
in North America, South Asia, and the Mediterranean and North Africa between 1600
and 1850 as the British Empire expanded. ''Captives'' (2002), the result of this research,
used captivity narratives of different kinds to investigate the under-belly and sporadic
vulnerability of the empire, the complex relations between the imperialists and the
societies they sought to invade, and the quality and flexibility of individual identity
under pressure. Colley is also the author of ''Namier'' (1989), a reappraisal of the Polish-
born and Zionist historian Lewis Namier.
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Her most recent work The Ordeal of
''Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History'' was nominated one of the ten best
books of 2007 by the ''New York Times''. An exercise in meshing biography with trans-continental history, ''The Ordeal'' used the life experience and peregrinations of a single,
self made woman as a means of charting and discussing the extent of proto-globalization in the later 18th century, and the degree to which individuals at the time
were cognizant of it. Professor Colley writes for British and American periodicals and
newspapers, including the ''Guardian'', the ''Times'', the ''New York Times'', the ''Times
Literary Supplement'', and the ''London Review of Books''. 
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In 1999 she delivered the
Prime Minister’s Millennium Lecture at 10 Downing Street. Among other scholarly
and public lectures, she has delivered the Trevelyan Lectures at Cambridge University
(1997), the Wiles Lectures at Queen’s University, Belfast (1997), a Ford and the
Bateman Lectures at Oxford (1999 and 2003), the Nehru Memorial Lecture at the
London School of Economics (2003), the Lewis Walpole Memorial Lecture at Yale
(2000), the Carnochan Lecture at Stanford (1998) and the President‘s Lecture at
Princeton University in 2007. ln 1999 she was elected a Fellow of the British
Academy. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and in 2009 was
awarded a C.B.E.


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