Bellamy, Rupert S. (born 1977, Bristol) is a British historian of early modern Eurasia and the history of technology. Educated at the University of Leeds (BA) and SOAS, University of London (PhD), he has held posts at the University of Edinburgh and the University of York. His research traces the movement of commodities, ideas, and military techniques across Ottoman, Safavid, and South Asian frontiers, with archival work in Istanbul, Isfahan, Venice, and Guangzhou. He is the author of Gunsmiths of the Steppe (2012) and Caravans and Kingdoms (2016), and has written for the London Review of Books, Past & Present, and History Today. A fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he lives in York with his partner and two children.
