Robin Briggs (born 26 May 1942) is an English historian who has spent his entire academic career atAll Souls College, Oxford.

Born inBraintree to Donald Frederick and Kathleen Ann Briggs, he went up toBalliol College, Oxford, in 1961 and graduated with a first-class modern historyBachelor of Arts degree in 1964.^[1][2]

He was appointed a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, that year, after passing its examination; he was then appointed a junior research fellow there in 1971 and then senior research fellow seven years later. Briggs remained in that post until retiring and being appointed an emeritus fellow at All Souls in 2009. From 1976 to 2009, he also lectured for theUniversity of Oxford, and wasjunior proctor in the 1972–73 year.^[1][2]

His research interests include the history ofwitchcraft in Europe and other aspects of early modern European history (especially politics, society and religion, and the history ofearly modern France and theFrench Catholic Church).^[1][2][3]

Briggs was elected aFellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1969, aFellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1999 and aFellow of the British Academy in 2009 (the last being the United Kingdom'snational academy for the humanities and social sciences).^[1][4][3]

Briggs had two sons and a step-son with his first wife,Julia Briggs.^[5] He later married the archaeologistDaphne Nash.^[6]

• The Witches of Lorraine (Oxford University Press, 2007).
• Witches and Neighbours: The Social and Cultural Context of European Witchcraft (Harper Collins, 1996).
• "The Académie Royale des Sciences and the pursuit of utility",Past and Present, vol. 131 (1991), pp. 38–88.
• Communities of Belief: Social and Cultural Tensions in Early Modern France (Oxford University Press, 1989).
• Early Modern France, 1560–1715 (Oxford University Press, 1977).

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