The Wild Hunt congratulates Prof. Ronald Hutton!
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We have just learned that Prof. Ronald Hutton has been awarded the CBE for services to history. The CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) is one of the orders of chivalry established by King George V during World War I. The Order of the British Empire is awarded to individuals for their outstanding contributions and achievements in various fields, such as arts and sciences, public service, charitable work, and more.
Prof. Hutton is well known to many Pagans, Witches, and polytheists in our community. He is an authority on the history of the British Isles, on ancient and medieval paganism and magic, on the global context of witchcraft beliefs, and modern Paganism.
Via the University of Bristol
Professor Ronald Hutton from the University of Bristol’s Department of History has been awarded a CBE for services to history.
Professor Hutton said: “This is a tremendous honour, and I am delighted above all to bring a little further distinction to the university in which I have spent most of my working life.”
Professor Hutton is a leading authority on the history of the British Isles in the 16th and 17th centuries, ancient and medieval paganism and magic, British folklore, and the global context of witchcraft beliefs.
He has written 18 books during his career which have included The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain (1996), The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present (2017) and The Making of Oliver Cromwell (2021).
He has also appeared on numerous television and radio programmes over the years, including his very own documentary series, Professor Hutton’s Curiosities in 2013. He was also one of the academic experts to be featured in the BBC’s Cunk on Britain where he held his own against the lethally disingenuous Philomena Cunk (played by Diane Morgan) on subjects ranging from Paganism, James I, and life in the Stone Age.
Professor Hutton joined the History Department at Bristol in 1981, having held a fellowship at Magdalen College, Oxford. Since then, he has been a Commissioner and then Trustee of English Heritage and is now a member of the Historic England Conservation Committee. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2013 and in 2022 was appointed Professor of Divinity at Gresham College in London.
In October, he was appointed by Lord Mendoza, the Head of Historic England and the Government’s Commissioner for Cultural Recovery and Renewal to chair the first ever national Blue Plaques Panel, to award plaques to buildings to commemorate eminent individuals who lived there.
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