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Dr Neil Tarrant

  • Position: Teaching Fellow in Early Modern History
  • Areas of expertise: history of science and medicine; history of magic; early modern Catholicism; history of religious toleration
  • Email: N.Tarrant@leeds.ac.uk

Profile

I am a specialist in the intellectual and cultural history of sixteenth-century Italy, with a particular focus on the history of science and medicine.  I studied in the History Department of the University of Edinburgh, the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at Imperial College London and the Centre for Intellectual History at the University of Sussex.  I have previously worked in the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at Imperial College, the History Department at Royal Holloway University of London, Science, Technology and Innovation Studies at the University of Edinburgh and the History Department at the University of York. 

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Qualifications

  • MA(hons) History, University of Edinburgh
  • MSc History of Science, Medicine and Technology, Imperial College London
  • DPhil Intellectual History, University of Sussex
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