Press release issued: 17 October 2024
The Law School’s Professors Catherine Kelly and Gwen Seabourne have been elected as Fellows of the Royal Historical Society in recognition of their outstanding contributions to historical scholarship.
Founded in 1868, the Royal Historical Society (RHS) is the UK’s largest membership organisation for historians of all kinds and from all walks of life, held in high regard by historians internationally, and a partner to many similar organisations overseas.
Catherine Kelly is Professor of Law and History and Head of the University of Bristol Law School. Her research examines the ways in which laws relating to medicine and scientific innovation were made, applied and changed.
Gwen Seabourne is Professor of Legal History. She specialises in medieval legal history, with a focus on medieval crime, economic regulation and medieval women.
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The Centre for Law and History Research brings together internationally-recognised expertise in the history of law over many centuries and several jurisdictions, with a variety of academic perspectives. The Centre exists to fosters excellent research in this field, individual and collaborative, and to forge links between disciplines and institutions, amongst scholars with an interest in examining law in its historical dimension.
