Brian Sebastian Pullan, FBA (1935 - 16 Dec 2022) was a British historian and academic. He was Full Professor of Modern History at the

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from 1973 to 1998. After completing a BA and

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, Pullan was appointed to a research fellowship there from 1961 to 1963. He was then elected to a

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ship of

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, in 1963 and also worked as an assistant

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(1964–67) and full lecturer (1967–72) at the

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. He then moved to the

to take up the Chair in modern history in 1973, retiring in 1998."Professor Brian Pullan FBA"
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''. Retrieved 10 September 2019. In 1985, Pullan was elected a

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, the United Kingdom's

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for the humanities. He was awarded the Academy's

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in 1991"Winners of the Serena Medal"
(

). Retrieved 10 September 2019. and served on the Academy's council from 1990 to 1993.

Publications (selected)

*Pullan, Brian, (1983) ''The Jews of Europe and the Inquisition of Venice, 1550-1670'', London: Tauris. *Pullan, Brian, with Abendstern, Michele (2000) ''A History of the University of Manchester, 1951–73''. Manchester: Manchester University Press
Selected pages
*Pullan, Brian; with Abendstern, Michele (2004) ''A History of the University of Manchester, 1973-90''. Manchester: Manchester University Press. *Pullan, Brian, with David Chambers, (2004) ''Venice : a documentary history, 1450-1630'', Toronto : Toronto University Press. *Pullan, Brian, (2015)''Crisis and Change in the Venetian Economy in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries'', Manchester: Manchester University Press. *Pullan, Brian,(2016) ''Tolerance, Regulation and Rescue: Dishonoured Women and Abandoned Children in Italy, 1300-1800'', Manchester: Manchester University Press.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pullan, Brian Living people 1944 births British historians Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge Fellows of Queens' College, Cambridge Historians at the University of Cambridge Academics of the University of Manchester Fellows of the British Academy