List of historians and classicists associated with Balliol College, Oxford

This is a list of notable people associated with Balliol College, Oxford, who were historians and classicists.

Historians Political, social and economic historians Image Name Join Date Field of work Comments Sir O. M. Edwards 1884 History of Wales Chief Inspector of Schools for WalesMP for Merionethshire R. H. Tawney 1899 Christian socialism Protestantism and the rise of capitalism"Tawney exercised the widest influence of any historian of his time, politically, socially and, above all, educationally" Arnold J. Toynbee 1907 international relations FBAProfessor LSE"A Study of History"Balliol College Register (Third Edition) by Ivo Elliott 1953 Sir Lewis Namier 1908 The History of Parliament The Structure of Politics in the C18thHistory of Parliament</p> Balliol College Register (Third Edition) by Ivo Elliott 1953 Sir Denis Brogan 1923 History of the United States government "The American Political System 1933 Peter Calvocoressi 1931 Post–Cold War era World Politics Since 1945; World Politics 1945-2000 Balliol College Register (Fifth Edition) by John Jones and Sally Viney 1983 Fin Crisp 1938 Political science Rhodes Scholar, "The Parliamentary Government of the Commonwealth of Australia" 1949 Hugh Stretton 1946 Urban history "one of Australia's leading public intellectuals" R. M. Hartwell 1948 Industrial Revolution "The Rising Standard of Living in England, 1800–1850" (1961) Raphael Samuel 1952 Working Class " one of the most outstanding, original intellectuals of his generation " Arthur Marwick 1957 Historiographer "The New Nature of History" 1971Balliol College Register (Sixth Edition) by John Jones and Catherine Willbery 1993 Maxine Berg 2009 Industrial Revolution FBA, Warwick University Professor

European history Image Name Join Date Field of work Comments James H. Billington 1950 History of Russia Rhodes Scholar, 13th Librarian of Congress Martin Conway 1990 History of Belgium Fellow Geoff Eley 1967 History of Germany Jeremy Lawrance 1971 History of Spain FBA LAWRANCE, Prof. Jeremy Norcliffe Haslehurst', in Who's Who 2014 (London: A. & C. Black), online edition by Oxford University Press, December 2013, accessed 3 May 2014 (subscription site) Philip Nord 1971 History of France Anthony Teasdale 1975 History of the European Union Frank McDonough 1985 Second World War Timothy D. Snyder 1995 Central Europe Marshall Scholar, FBA, Fellow, Yale Professor Lyndal Roper 2002 Germany Rhodes Scholar, FBA, FellowRegius Professor of History, OxfordLyndal Roper Balliol College webpage retrieved 14 December 2024 (Wayback) Sophie Marnette 2004 Medieval French FellowProfessor of Medieval French StudiesSpeech and Thought Presentation in French: Concept and StrategiesSophie Marnette Balliol College webpage retrieved 14 December 2024

Colonial historians Image Name Join Date Field of work Comments Donald Creighton 1925 History of Canada Warned against American domination Max Crawford 1927 History of Australia first secretary to the Australian legation in the Soviet Union WW2 Thomas Lionel Hodgkin 1928 History of Africa FellowHusband of Nobel Prize winner Dorothy Hodgkinson of historian Robert Howard Hodgkin and grandson of historian Thomas HodgkinDid "more than anyone to establish the serious study of African history" Floreat Domus 2015, May 26, 2015 Sir Keith Hancock 1921 British Empire Chichele Professor of Economic History, "The British War Economy" 1949 John La Nauze 1932 History of Australia Rhodes Scholar"Political Economy in Australia" 1949 Daniel J. Boorstin 1934 History of America 12th Librarian of Congress Manning Clark 1938 History of Australia "Australia's most famous historian" Tapan Raychaudhuri 1953 History of India C. A. Bayly 1963 British Empire Ronald Robinson 1971 British Empire FBA, Fellow

Modern historians

Image Name Join date Field of work Comments John Keegan 1953 Military history Lecturer, SandhurstDefence Correspondent, The TelegraphVisiting professor, Princeton, Vassar Bernard Wasserstein 1966 Jewish history Peter Hayes 1968 The Holocaust Christopher Catherwood 1973 History of religionWorld War IIWriter, independent scholar based at Churchill College, Cambridge Dominic Sandbrook 1992history podcaster "The Rest is History" Dan Snow 1998 popular historian son of Peter Snow 1958

Early modern historians Image Name Join Date Field of work Comments Robin Briggs 1961 European witchcraft Fellow of All Souls "Briggs, Robin", Who's Who (online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2017). Retrieved 2 May 2018. Vivian Hunter Galbraith 1910 Domesday Book Regius Professor of Modern History Christopher Hill 1931 English Civil War FBA, Master of Balliol, Marxist"Intellectual Origins of the English Revolution" 1965 rev 1996 Gerald Aylmer 1943 17th Century FBA, Fellow"Rebellion or Revolution?" 1986 Sir Keith Thomas 1952 History of Religion FBA, Hon Fellow"Religion and the Decline of Magic" Suzannah Lipscomb 2009 Tudor dynasty "Not Just the Tudors"

Medievalists Image Name Join Date Field of work Comments H. W. C. Davis 1891 Medieval Europe Fellow, All Souls' 1895, lecturer, New College 1897, Fellow, Balliol 1902;War service in the War Trade Intelligence Department;Editor, Dictionary of National Biography;Professor of Modern History, University of Manchester 1921–1925, Regius Professor of History, Oxford University and Fellow, Oriel."History of Balliol College" 1899Known as Fluffy"Royal Historical Society", Cambridge Core, Members of Oxford University mentioned in the Camden Letters;father of R. H. C. Davis</p> retrieved 14 December 2024 Robert Howard Hodgkin 1895 Anglo-Saxons Fellow at Queen's Collegefather of Thomas Lionel Hodgkin""Elizabeth of Bohemia" 1901 F. M. Powicke 1899 13th Century FBA, Fellow of Merton CollegeRegius Professor of Modern History"The Loss of Normandy" 1913 Richard Southern 1929 Middle Ages FBA, FellowChichele Professor of Modern History"The Making of the Middle Ages" R. H. C. Davis 1937 Medieval Europe FBA, Fellow at Merton CollegeProfessor at BirminghamSon of H. W. C. Davis 1891"The Normans and their Myth" 1976 Rodney Hilton 1935 Feudalism FBA, Fellow, Marxist"Class Conflict and the Crisis of Feudalism" 1985 Maurice Keen 1954 Chivalry FBA, Fellow"English Society in the later Middle Ages" 1990 Jeremy Catto 1958 History of Education Fellow at Oriel College"The History of the University of Oxford" Patrick Wormald 1966 Anglo-Saxons "The Making of English Law: King Alfred to the Twelfth Century" David d'Avray 1973 Christianity in the Middle Ages Emeritus Professor at University College London Lesley Abrams 2000 Scandinavian history FellowProfessor of Early Medieval HistoryThe Anglo-Saxons and the Christianization of ScandinaviaBalliol College Register (Seventh Edition) by Tom Bewley and John Jones. 2005.

Classicists Image Name Join Date Field of work Comments William Young Sellar 1842 Latin poetry FRSEProfessor of Humanity at Edinburgh University Robinson Ellis 1852 Classical Latin CatullusCorpus Professor of Latin David Binning Monro 1854 Homer FBA Vice-Chancellor Robert Scott 1835 Philology Master"A Greek-English Lexicon" William Hardie 1880 Classics FellowProfessor of Humanity at Edinburgh University Sir George Macdonald 1883 Archaeology FBANumismaticsAntonine Wall Cyril Bailey 1890 Latin Fellow 1902-1939Public Orator, Oxford University 1932-39Chair, LMH 1931-39Oxford Latin Dictionary Sir Arthur Wallace Pickard-Cambridge 1891 Theatre of ancient Greece FBA, FellowProfessor of Greek,EdinburghVice-Chancellor, Sheffield Sir John Beazley 1903 Archaeology CH, FBAOxford Professor of Classical ArchaeologyAttic Vases H. J. Rose 1904 Greek mythology Rhodes Scholar, FBA chess player"A Handbook of Greek Mythology" Edgar Lobel 1907 Classical Philology Hon Fellowdeclined knighthoodOxyrhynchus Papyri 1919 Philology Virgil, Professor, Liverpool University Sir Roger Mynors 1922 Classical Latin FBA, FellowCorpus Christi Professor of Latin"Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Balliol College, Oxford" 1963 Richard William Hunt 1927 Paleography FellowKeeper of the Western Manuscripts at the Bodleian Library William Watt 1933 Classics FBA, FellowRegius Professor of Humanity, Aberdeen Sir Kenneth Dover 1938 Ancient Greek Fellow, President British Academy"Greek Homosexuality" 1978 Russell Meiggs 1939 Ancient history Fellow" Trees and timber in the ancient Mediterranean world " 1982 Robin Nisbet 1947 Classical Latin FBA, Snell ExhibitionerCorpus Christi Professor of Latin Martin Litchfield West 1955 Ancient Greek OM, FBA,"a man of few words in seven languages" Jasper Griffin 1956 Classics FBA, Fellow, Public Orator Glen Bowersock 1957 Ancient history Rhodes Scholar, Honorary Fellow Timothy Barnes 1960 History of Christianity FBA, Professor Toronto University Jonathan Barnes 1961 Aristotle FBA, Fellow, Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Oxford from 1989-94 and at the Sorbonne 2002-6Revised the Oxford Aristotle, universally recognised as the standard English version, in light of modern scholarshipThe Complete Works of Aristotle, 2 vols, 1984; reprinted with corrections, 1995 Oliver Lyne 1971 Latin poetry FellowProfessor of Classical Languages and Literature Emily Wilson 1990 OdysseyIlliadMacArthur FellowProfessor UPenn Rosalind Thomas 2004 Greek History FellowProfessor of Greek HistoryOral Tradition and Written Record in Classical Athens 1989Rosalind Thomas Balliol College website retrieved 14 December 2024

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