It has been suggested that this article should be split into articles titled List of historians and classicists associated with Balliol College, Oxford and List of writers associated with Balliol College, Oxford. (discuss) (August 2024) |
This is a list of notable historians, classicists and writers associated with Balliol College, Oxford.
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Maxine Berg | 2009 | Industrial Revolution | FBA, Warwick University Professor | ||
Arthur Marwick | 1957 | Historiographer | "The New Nature of History" 1971 | [1]: 239 | |
Raphael Samuel | 1952 | Working Class | ” one of the most outstanding, original intellectuals of his generation “ | [1]: 184 | |
R. M. Hartwell | 1948 | Industrial Revolution | "The Rising Standard of Living in England, 1800–1850" (1961) | [1]: 141 | |
Hugh Stretton | 1946 | Urban history | "one of Australia's leading public intellectuals" | [1]: 124 | |
Fin Crisp | 1938 | Political science | Rhodes Scholar, “The Parliamentary Government of the Commonwealth of Australia” 1949 | [1]: 69 | |
Sir Denis Brogan | 1923 | History of the United States government | “The American Political System 1933 | [2]: 29 | |
Sir Lewis Namier | 1908 | The History of Parliament | The Structure of Politics in the C18th History of Parliament |
[3]: 130 | |
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" |
[3]: 64 | |
Sir O. M. Edwards | 1884 | History of Wales | Chief Inspector of Schools for Wales MP for Merionethshire |
[3]: 14 |
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Lyndal Roper | 2002 | Germany | Rhodes Scholar, FBA, Fellow Regius Professor of History, Oxford |
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Timothy D. Snyder | 1995 | Central Europe | Marshall Scholar, FBA, Fellow, Yale Professor | ||
Frank McDonough | 1985 | Second World War | [1]: 545 | ||
Anthony Teasdale | 1975 | History of the European Union | [1]: 452 | ||
Philip Nord | 1971 | History of France | [1]: 408 | ||
Jeremy Lawrance | 1971 | History of Spain | FBA | [1]: 407 [4] | |
Geoff Eley | 1967 | History of Germany | [1]: 359 | ||
James H. Billington | 1950 | History of Russia | Rhodes Scholar, 13th Librarian of Congress | [1]: 159 |
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Ronald Robinson | 1971 | British Empire | FBA, Fellow | [1]: 636 | |
C. A. Bayly | 1963 | British Empire | [1]: 310 | ||
Tapan Raychaudhuri | 1953 | History of India | [1]: 195 | ||
Manning Clark | 1938 | History of Australia | "Australia's most famous historian" | [1]: 68 | |
Daniel J. Boorstin | 1934 | History of America | 12th Librarian of Congress | [1]: 44 | |
John La Nauze | 1932 | History of Australia | Rhodes Scholar "Political Economy in Australia" 1949 |
[1]: 31 | |
Sir Keith Hancock | 1921 | British Empire | Chichele Professor of Economic History, “The British War Economy” 1949 | [1]: 4 | |
Thomas Lionel Hodgkin | 1928 | History of Africa | Fellow Husband of Nobel Prize winner Dorothy Hodgkin did "more than anyone to establish the serious study of African history" |
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Max Crawford | 1927 | History of Australia | first secretary to the Australian legation in the Soviet Union WW2 | [1]: 15 [7] | |
Donald Creighton | 1925 | History of Canada | Warned against American domination | [3]: 261 |
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Dan Snow | 1998 | popular historian | son of Peter Snow 1958 | ||
Dominic Sandbrook | 1992 | history podcaster | "The Rest is History" | ||
Peter Hayes | 1968 | The Holocaust | [1]: 371 | ||
Bernard Wasserstein | 1966 | Jewish History | [1]: 353 |
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Suzannah Lipscomb | 2009 | Tudor dynasty | "Not Just the Tudors" | ||
Sir Keith Thomas | 1952 | History of Religion | FBA, Hon Fellow "Religion and the Decline of Magic" |
[1]: 185 | |
Gerald Aylmer | 1943 | 17th Century | FBA, Fellow "Rebellion or Revolution?" 1986 |
[1]: 100 | |
Christopher Hill | 1931 | English Civil War | FBA, Master of Balliol, Marxist "Intellectual Origins of the English Revolution" 1965 rev 1996 |
[1]: 30 | |
Vivian Hunter Galbraith | 1910 | Domesday Book | Regius Professor of Modern History | [3]: 142 |
Image | Name | Join Date | Field of work | Comments | Refs |
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Patrick Wormald | 1966 | Anglo-Saxons | "The Making of English Law: King Alfred to the Twelfth Century" | [1]: 354 [8] | |
Jeremy Catto | 1958 | History of Education | Fellow at Oriel College "The History of the University of Oxford" |
[1]: 354 [9] | |
Maurice Keen | 1954 | Chivalry | FBA, Fellow "English Society in the later Middle Ages" 1990 |
[1]: 204 | |
Rodney Hilton | 1935 | Feudalism | FBA, Fellow, Marxist "Class Conflict and the Crisis of Feudalism" 1985 |
[1]: 52 | |
R. H. C. Davis | 1937 | Medieval Europe | FBA, Fellow at Merton College Professor at Birmingham Son of H. W. C. Davis 1891 "The Normans and their Myth" 1976 |
[1]: 63 | |
Richard Southern | 1929 | Middle Ages | FBA, Fellow Chichele Professor of Modern History "The Making of the Middle Ages" |
[1]: 23 | |
F. M. Powicke | 1899 | 13th Century | FBA, Fellow of Merton College Regius Professor of Modern History "The Loss of Normandy" 1913 |
[3]: 63 | |
Robert Howard Hodgkin | 1895 | Anglo-Saxons | Fellow at Queen's College father of Thomas Lionel Hodgkin ""Elizabeth of Bohemia" 1901 |
[3]: 45 | |
H. W. C. Davis | 1891 | Medieval Europe | Editor of the Dictionary of National Biography Regius Professor of Modern History "History of Balliol College" 1899 father of R. H. C. Davis |
[3]: 31 |
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Emily Wilson | 1990 | Odyssey | MacArthur Fellow Professor UPenn |
[1]: 564 | |
Oliver Lyne | 1971 | Latin poetry | Fellow Professor of Classical Languages and Literature |
[1]: 403 [10] | |
Jonathan Barnes | 1961 | Aristotle | FBA, Fellow, Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Oxford from 1989-94 and at the Sorbonne 2002-6, who revised the Oxford Aristotle, universally recognised as the standard English version, in light of modern scholarship The Complete Works of Aristotle, 2 vols, 1984; reprinted with corrections, 1995 |
[1]: 285 | |
Timothy Barnes | 1960 | History of Christianity | FBA, Professor Toronto University | [1]: 274 | |
Glen Bowersock | 1957 | Ancient history | Rhodes Scholar, Honorary Fellow | [1]: 234 | |
Jasper Griffin | 1956 | Classics | FBA, Fellow, Public Orator | [1]: 224 | |
Martin Litchfield West | 1955 | Ancient Greek | OM, FBA,"a man of few words in seven languages" | [1]: 218 | |
Robin Nisbet | 1947 | Classical Latin | FBA, Snell Exhibitioner Corpus Christi Professor of Latin |
[1]: 134 | |
Russell Meiggs | 1939 | Ancient history | Fellow " Trees and timber in the ancient Mediterranean world " 1982 |
[1]: 74 | |
Sir Kenneth Dover | 1938 | Ancient Greek | Fellow, President British Academy “Greek Homosexuality” 1978 |
[1]: 69 | |
William Watt | 1933 | Classics | FBA, Fellow Regius Professor of Humanity, Aberdeen |
[1]: 43 | |
Richard William Hunt | 1927 | Paleography | Fellow Keeper of the Western Manuscripts at the Bodleian Library |
[2]: 29 | |
Sir Roger Mynors | 1922 | Classical Latin | FBA, Fellow Corpus Christi Professor of Latin "Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Balliol College, Oxford" 1963 |
[2]: 26 | |
Roland Gregory Austin | 1919 | Philology | Virgil, Professor, Liverpool University | [2]: 66 | |
Edgar Lobel | 1907 | Classical Philology | Hon Fellow declined knighthood |
[3]: 99 | |
H. J. Rose | 1904 | Greek mythology | Rhodes Scholar, FBA chess player[11] "A Handbook of Greek Mythology" |
[3]: 99 | |
Sir John Beazley | 1903 | Archaeology | CH, FBA Oxford Professor of Classical Archaeology |
[3]: 88 | |
Sir George Macdonald | 1883 | Archaeology | FBA | [3]: 99 [12] | |
William Hardie | 1880 | Classics | Fellow Professor of Humanity at Edinburgh University |
[3]: 7 | |
Robert Scott | 1835 | Philology | Master "A Greek-English Lexicon" |
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David Binning Monro | 1854 | Homer | FBA Vice-Chancellor | ||
Robinson Ellis | 1852 | Classical Latin | Catullus Corpus Professor of Latin |
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William Young Sellar | 1842 | Latin poetry | FRSE Professor of Humanity at Edinburgh University |
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Rana Dasgupta | 1990 | globalisation | Tokyo Cancelled | [1]: 562 | |
Zia Haider Rahman | 1987 | trust | In the Light of What We Know | [1]: 554 | |
Amit Chaudhuri | 1987 | creative writing | "A Strange and sublime address" | [1]: 552 | |
Charlotte Jones | 1986 | playwright | The Halcyon WW2 period drama TV series |
[1]: 550 | |
Ian Watson | 1960 | science fiction | Warhammer 40,000 trilogy | [1]: 282 | |
Robert Barnard | 1956 | crime fiction | "Death of an Old Goat" | [1]: 221 | |
Kyril Bonfiglioli | 1955 | comedy thriller | Mortdecai | [1]: 211 | |
W. J. Burley | 1950 | detective story | Wycliffe | [1]: 159 | |
Dan Davin | 1936 | New Zealand | Rhodes Scholar, Fellow "Cliffs of Fall" |
[1]: 57 | |
Robertson Davies | 1935 | trilogy | One of Canada's best-known and most popular authors and one of its most distinguished "men of letters". His prize-winning novels and trilogies explore Jungian psychology, magic and classical myth. | [1]: 50 | |
Anthony Powell | 1923 | book series | His famous series A Dance to the Music of Time (ranked 36th on the BBC list of 100 greatest British novels [14]) earned him the title 'The English Proust'. | [1]: 7 | |
Graham Greene | 1922 | thriller | One of the leading novelists of the 20th century, shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in Literature several times. Best known for his 'Catholic novels' exploring moral and political conflicts, especially the contest between the socialist state and private morality. Awarded OM. | [1]: 5 | |
Nevil Shute | 1918 | dignity of work | His novels A Town Like Alice, Trustee from the Toolroom and On the Beach featured on the 1998 list of the Modern Library 100 Best Novels of the 20th century | [3]: 200 | |
Beverley Nichols | 1916 | emotions | "Down the Garden Path" | [3]: 200 | |
L. P. Hartley | 1915 | family relationships | wrote of morality, society and the loss of innocence The The Go-Between was made into a film. |
[3]: 178 | |
Aldous Huxley | 1913 | dystopian fiction | author of Brave New World and The Doors of Perception, widely acknowledged as one of the foremost intellectuals of his time, nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature nine times, and elected Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 1962 | [3]: 157 | |
Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins | 1881 | adventure fiction | The Prisoner of Zenda | [3]: 9 | |
William Hurrell Mallock | 1869 | novel | Catholic writer who opposed socialism | [15]: 62 |
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Howard Marks | 1964 | cannabis dealer | Mr Nice | [1]: 326 | |
Ved Mehta | 1956 | author | Fellow, blind autobiographer in several books |
[1]: 227 | |
Warren Rovetch | 1949 | travel writer | Fulbright Scholar The Creaky Traveler |
[1]: 154 [16] | |
Nicholas Mosley | 1946 | novelist | peer, wrote critical biography of his father, the fascist Sir Oswald Mosley | [1]: 122 | |
Francis King | 1941 | novelist | Yesterday Came Suddenly, 1993 autobiography | [1]: 91 | |
Peter Quennell | 1923 | historical writer | "the last genuine example of the English man of letters" | [2]: 32 [17] | |
John Stewart Collis | 1918 | biographer | biography of George Bernard Shaw The Worm Forgives the Plough about working the land in WWII |
[2]: 12 | |
Sir Sidney Lee | 1878 | man of letters | editor, Dictionary of National Biography | [15]: 112 | |
John Addington Symonds | 1857 | biographer | wrote on Percy Bysshe Shelley, Michelangelo et al. | [15]: 24 | |
John Gibson Lockhart | 1809 | novelist biographer |
wrote standard biography of Sir Walter Scott, his father-in-law | [18] | |
John Evelyn | 1637 | diarist | FRS did not graduate |
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