Robin Briggs

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

Early life and education Born in Braintree to Donald Frederick and Kathleen Ann Briggs, he went up to Balliol College, Oxford, in 1961 and graduated with a first-class modern history Bachelor of Arts degree in 1964.

Honours Briggs was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1969, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1999 and a Fellow of the British Academy in 2009 (the last being the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences). He later married the archaeologist Daphne Nash.

Selected publications 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).