Pat Hudson
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Pat Hudson | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1948 (age 76–77) |
| Occupation(s) | Historian and academic |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | London School of Economics University of York |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
| Sub-discipline | |
| Institutions | Cardiff University |
Pat Hudson FBA (born 1948) is a British historian and academic. She is a Professor Emeritus of History at Cardiff University.[1][2]
In 2022, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[3]
Hudson was born in 1948[4] in Barrow-in-Furness, Lancashire. Her father worked there as a joiner.[5]
In 1971, Hudson was awarded a B.Sc. Economics from the London School of Economics and this was followed in 1981 by a PhD in Economic History from the University of York.[1][2] She began an academix career by teaching for a year at the University of Leeds from 1975, and then was at the University of Liverpool from 1976 to 1997, being given a personal chair in 1993. She moved to the University of Cardiff as Professor of History in 1997.[6]
