Margot Finn


Margot C. Finn, is a British historian and academic, who specialises in Britain and the British colonial world during the long nineteenth century. She has been Professor of Modern British History at the University College, London since 2012. Finn is the President of the Royal Historical Society and a trustee of the Victoria & Albert Museum.
Prior to joining UCL, she was Professor of History and Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Warwick.
On 24 November 2017, Finn presented her first annual Presidential address as President of the Royal Historical Society, discussing the subject of 'Loot' in her series on 'Material Turns in Modern British History'.
In July 2019, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.
Professor Finn has supervised a number of PhD students that have gone on to employment at other universities and in the public research and philanthropy sectors. These include:
Dr. Jeffrey Reznick, Chief of the History of Medicine Division, US National History of Medicine Library
Dr. Sascha Auerbach, Lecturer in Modern British and Colonial History, University of Nottingham
Dr. Katherine Foxhall, Lecturer in Modern History, University of Leicester

Selected publications