# 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

| Name | Join Date | Field of work | Comments | Refs |
| Maxine Berg | 2009 | Industrial Revolution | FBA, Warwick University Professor | |
| Arthur Marwick | 1957 | Historiographer | "The New Nature of History" 1971 | $^{:239}$ |
| Raphael Samuel | 1952 | Working Class | ” one of the most outstanding, original intellectuals of his generation “ | $^{:184}$ |
| R. M. Hartwell | 1948 | Industrial Revolution | "The Rising Standard of Living in England, 1800–1850" (1961) | $^{:141}$ |
| Hugh Stretton | 1946 | Urban history | "one of Australia's leading public intellectuals" | $^{:124}$ |
| Fin Crisp | 1938 | Political science | Rhodes Scholar, “The Parliamentary Government of the Commonwealth of Australia” 1949 | $^{:69}$ |
| Sir Denis Brogan | 1923 | History of the United States government | “The American Political System 1933 | $^{:29}$ |
| Sir Lewis Namier | 1908 | The History of Parliament | The Structure of Politics in the C18thHistory of Parliament | $^{:130}$ |
| Arnold J. Toynbee | 1907 | international relations | FBA Professor LSE"A Study of History" | $^{:123}$ |
| 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" | $^{:64}$ |
| Sir O. M. Edwards | 1884 | History of Wales | Chief Inspector of Schools for WalesMP for Merionethshire | $^{:14}$ |

### European history

| Name | Join Date | Field of work | Comments | Refs |
| Sophie Marnette | 2004 | Medieval French | Fellow Professor of Medieval French StudiesSpeech and Thought Presentation in French: Concept and Strategies | |
| Lyndal Roper | 2002 | Germany | Rhodes Scholar, FBA, Fellow Regius Professor of History, Oxford | |
| Timothy D. Snyder | 1995 | Central Europe | Marshall Scholar, FBA, Fellow, Yale Professor | $^{:507}$ |
| Frank McDonough | 1985 | Second World War | | $^{:545}$ |
| Anthony Teasdale | 1975 | History of the European Union | | $^{:452}$ |
| Philip Nord | 1971 | History of France | | $^{:408}$ |
| Jeremy Lawrance | 1971 | History of Spain | FBA | $^{:407}$ |
| Geoff Eley | 1967 | History of Germany | | $^{:359}$ |
| James H. Billington | 1950 | History of Russia | Rhodes Scholar, 13th Librarian of Congress | $^{:159}$ |

### Colonial historians

| Name | Join Date | Field of work | Comments | Refs |
| Ronald Robinson | 1971 | British Empire | FBA, Fellow | $^{:636}$ |
| C. A. Bayly | 1963 | British Empire | | $^{:310}$ |
| Tapan Raychaudhuri | 1953 | History of India | | $^{:195}$ |
| Manning Clark | 1938 | History of Australia | "Australia's most famous historian" | $^{:68}$ |
| Daniel J. Boorstin | 1934 | History of America | 12th Librarian of Congress | $^{:44}$ |
| John La Nauze | 1932 | History of Australia | Rhodes Scholar"Political Economy in Australia" 1949 | $^{:31}$ |
| Sir Keith Hancock | 1921 | British Empire | Chichele Professor of Economic History, “The British War Economy” 1949 | $^{:4}$ |
| Thomas Lionel Hodgkin | 1928 | History of Africa | FellowHusband of Nobel Prize winner Dorothy Hodgkin son of historian Robert Howard Hodgkin and grandson of historian Thomas Hodgkindid "more than anyone to establish the serious study of African history" | |
| Max Crawford | 1927 | History of Australia | first secretary to the Australian legation in the Soviet Union WW2 | $^{:15}$ |
| Donald Creighton | 1925 | History of Canada | Warned against American domination | $^{:261}$ |

### Modern historians

| Name | Join date | Field of work | Comments | Refss |
| Dan Snow | 1998 | popular historian | son of Peter Snow 1958 | |
| Dominic Sandbrook | 1992 | history podcaster | "The Rest is History" | |
| Peter Hayes | 1968 | The Holocaust | | $^{:371}$ |
| Bernard Wasserstein | 1966 | Jewish history | | $^{:353}$ |
| John Keegan | 1953 | Military history | Lecturer, SandhurstDefence Correspondent, The TelegraphVisiting professor, Princeton, Vassar | |

### Early modern historians

| Name | Join Date | Field of work | Comments | Refs |
| 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" | $^{:185}$ |
| Gerald Aylmer | 1943 | 17th Century | FBA, Fellow"Rebellion or Revolution?" 1986 | $^{:100}$ |
| Christopher Hill | 1931 | English Civil War | FBA, Master of Balliol, Marxist"Intellectual Origins of the English Revolution" 1965 rev 1996 | $^{:30}$ |
| Vivian Hunter Galbraith | 1910 | Domesday Book | Regius Professor of Modern History | $^{:142}$ |

### Medievalists

| Name | Join Date | Field of work | Comments | Refs |
| Lesley Abrams | 2000 | Scandinavian history | Fellow Professor of Early Medieval HistoryThe Anglo-Saxons and the Christianization of Scandinavia | $^{:2}$ |
| Patrick Wormald | 1966 | Anglo-Saxons | "The Making of English Law: King Alfred to the Twelfth Century" | $^{:354}$ |
| Jeremy Catto | 1958 | History of Education | Fellow at Oriel College"The History of the University of Oxford" | $^{:354}$ |
| Maurice Keen | 1954 | Chivalry | FBA, Fellow"English Society in the later Middle Ages" 1990 | $^{:204}$ |
| Rodney Hilton | 1935 | Feudalism | FBA, Fellow, Marxist"Class Conflict and the Crisis of Feudalism" 1985 | $^{:52}$ |
| 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 | $^{:63}$ |
| Richard Southern | 1929 | Middle Ages | FBA, Fellow Chichele Professor of Modern History"The Making of the Middle Ages" | $^{:23}$ |
| F. M. Powicke | 1899 | 13th Century | FBA, Fellow of Merton College Regius Professor of Modern History"The Loss of Normandy" 1913 | $^{:63}$ |
| Robert Howard Hodgkin | 1895 | Anglo-Saxons | Fellow at Queen's College father of Thomas Lionel Hodgkin""Elizabeth of Bohemia" 1901 | $^{:45}$ |
| 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;father of R. H. C. Davis | $^{:31}$ retrieved 14 December 2024 |

## Classicists

| Name | Join Date | Field of work | Comments | Refs |
| Rosalind Thomas | 2004 | Greek History | Fellow Professor of Greek HistoryOral Tradition and Written Record in Classical Athens 1989 | |
| Emily Wilson | 1990 | OdysseyIlliad | MacArthur FellowProfessor UPenn | $^{:564}$ |
| Oliver Lyne | 1971 | Latin poetry | Fellow Professor of Classical Languages and Literature | $^{:403}$ |
| 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 | $^{:285}$ |
| Timothy Barnes | 1960 | History of Christianity | FBA, Professor Toronto University | $^{:274}$ |
| Glen Bowersock | 1957 | Ancient history | Rhodes Scholar, Honorary Fellow | $^{:234}$ |
| Jasper Griffin | 1956 | Classics | FBA, Fellow, Public Orator | $^{:224}$ |
| Martin Litchfield West | 1955 | Ancient Greek | OM, FBA,"a man of few words in seven languages" | $^{:218}$ |
| Robin Nisbet | 1947 | Classical Latin | FBA, Snell Exhibitioner Corpus Christi Professor of Latin | $^{:134}$ |
| Russell Meiggs | 1939 | Ancient history | Fellow" Trees and timber in the ancient Mediterranean world " 1982 | $^{:74}$ |
| Sir Kenneth Dover | 1938 | Ancient Greek | Fellow, President British Academy“Greek Homosexuality” 1978 | $^{:69}$ |
| William Watt | 1933 | Classics | FBA, Fellow Regius Professor of Humanity, Aberdeen | $^{:43}$ |
| Richard William Hunt | 1927 | Paleography | FellowKeeper of the Western Manuscripts at the Bodleian Library | $^{:29}$ |
| Sir Roger Mynors | 1922 | Classical Latin | FBA, Fellow Corpus Christi Professor of Latin"Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Balliol College, Oxford" 1963 | $^{:26}$ |
| Roland Gregory Austin [de] | 1919 | Philology | Virgil, Professor, Liverpool University | $^{:66}$ |
| Edgar Lobel | 1907 | Classical Philology | Hon Fellow declined knighthoodOxyrhynchus Papyri | $^{:99}$ |
| H. J. Rose | 1904 | Greek mythology | Rhodes Scholar, FBA chess player"A Handbook of Greek Mythology" | $^{:99}$ |
| Sir John Beazley | 1903 | Archaeology | CH, FBA Oxford Professor of Classical ArchaeologyAttic Vases | $^{:88}$ |
| Sir Arthur Wallace Pickard-Cambridge | 1891 | Theatre of ancient Greece | FBA, FellowProfessor of Greek,Edinburgh Vice-Chancellor, Sheffield | $^{:99}$ |
| Cyril Bailey | 1890 | Latin | Fellow 1902-1939 Public Orator, Oxford University 1932-39Chair, LMH 1931-39Oxford Latin Dictionary | $^{:28}$ |
| Sir George Macdonald | 1883 | Archaeology | FBANumismatics Antonine Wall | $^{:99}$ |
| William Hardie | 1880 | Classics | FellowProfessor of Humanity at Edinburgh University | $^{:7}$ |
| Robert Scott | 1835 | Philology | Master"A Greek-English Lexicon" | |
| David Binning Monro | 1854 | Homer | FBA Vice-Chancellor | |
| Robinson Ellis | 1852 | Classical Latin | CatullusCorpus Professor of Latin | |
| William Young Sellar | 1842 | Latin poetry | FRSEProfessor of Humanity at Edinburgh University | |