Brian Pullan
Brian Sebastian Pullan, FBA is a British historian and retired academic. He was Professor of Modern History at the University of Manchester from 1973 to 1998.
After completing a BA and PhD at Trinity College, Cambridge, Pullan was appointed to a research fellowship there from 1961 to 1963. He was then elected to a fellowship of Queens' College, Cambridge, in 1963 and also worked as an assistant lecturer and full lecturer at the University of Cambridge. He then moved to the University of Manchester to take up the chair in modern history in 1973, retiring in 1998.
In 1985, Pullan was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities. He was awarded the Academy's Serena Medal in 1991 and served on the Academy's council from 1990 to 1993.
