Betty Wood

Betty C. Wood (23 February 1945 – 3 September 2021) was a British historian and academic, who specialised in early American history, Atlantic history, social history, and slavery in eighteenth and early nineteenth century. She was a Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge (1971–2011) and taught in the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, rising to become Reader in American History.

Biography Wood was born on 23 February 1945 in Melton Constable, Norfolk, England. She was educated at grammar schools in Fakenham and Scunthorpe. She then studied social and economic history at the London School of Economics, She was additionally Director of Studies in history at Girton from 1974 to 1984.

Having had cancer,

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