Betty C. Wood | |
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Born | 23 February 1945 Melton Constable, Norfolk, England |
Died | 3 September 2021 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England | (aged 76)
Nationality | British |
Citizenship | United Kingdom |
Academic work | |
Discipline | History |
Sub-discipline | |
Institutions | Girton College, Cambridge Faculty of History, University of Cambridge |
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.