page_title: List of Durham University people
section_title: Historians and Antiquarians
hierarchical_section_title: List of Durham University people / Academics / Historians and Antiquarians
caption_attribution_description: English: Liz James at Panagia Porta, Thessaly.
context_page_description: This is a list of people associated with Durham University, divided for user convenience into multiple subcategories. This includes alumni, those who have taught there, conducted research there or played a part in its founding. Durham is a collegiate university, so where known and if applicable, they are shown alongside their associated college. For reasons of brevity, alumni of University College, St Cuthbert's Society and Trevelyan College are written with the shorter, more informal names of Castle, Cuths and Trevs respectively.
  Note that college membership was not always compulsory. From Epiphany term of 1871 the university, as a way of lowering the cost of studying at Durham, began to admit students without the need to join a college or hall – an innovation that may have been influenced by Oxford's decision to admit non-collegiate students in 1868. This change proved popular, and between 1870/71 and 1890/91 the 'Unattached Members' were 28% of entrants. Some students who read for higher degrees, like the geologist Gillian Foulger, did not join a college either. Alumni who did not take up membership of a college or society are therefore listed as Unattached.
context_section_description: Michael Aris (Cuths) – Author on Bhutanese, Tibetan and Himalayan culture and Buddhism; Lecturer in Asian history at St John's College, Oxford and later at St Antony's College, Oxford
  Jeremy Black – Professor of History at the University of Exeter
  Richard Britnell – Emeritus Professor of History at Durham University
  Bertram Colgrave (Hatfield) – Reader in English at Durham University; Editor of Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile
  Anthony Crichton-Stuart (St Chad's) – Head of Old Master Paintings at Christie's, New York
  Robin Donkin (King's) – Reader in Historical Geography in Cambridge University
  Jo Fox – Director of the Institute of Historical Research
  David Gaimster – Director of the Auckland War Memorial Museum
  Roy Martin Haines (St Chad's) – Professor of Medieval History at Dalhousie University
  James Holland (St Chad's) – Popular historian, author of books on World War II
  Jean Hood – Author of maritime history
  Liz James (Van Mildert) – Professor of the History of Art at the University of Sussex
  Judith Jesch (St Aidan's) – Professor of Viking Studies at the University of Nottingham
  Clifford Kinvig (Cuths) – Senior Lecturer in War Studies at RMA Sandhurst
  Deborah Lavin – Principal of Trevelyan College (1979–95)
  Dominic Montserrat (Grey) - British egyptologist and papyrologist
  Jack Ogden – Visiting Professor of Ancient Jewellery, Material and Technology at Birmingham City University; President of the Society of Jewellery Historians (since 2018)
  George Ornsby (Castle) – Antiquarian; editor with the Surtees Society
  David Reeder (Hatfield) – Lecturer in Urban History, University of Leicester
  Nicholas Reeves (Van Mildert) – Egyptologist; Director of the Amarna Royal Tombs Project (1998–2002)
  Alec Ryrie – Professor of the History of Christianity at Durham University; Gresham Professor of Divinity
  Alan Schom (Hatfield) – Biographer of Napoleon and Napoleon III
  Peter Snowdon (Castle) – specialist in contemporary British political history; contributor to Parliamentary Brief
  Joanna Story (Trevs) – Professor of Early Medieval History at the University of Leiecester
  Michael Swanton – Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at Exeter University
  George Macaulay Trevelyan – Chancellor of Durham University (1950–57)
  Andy Wood, Professor of Social History at Durham University
  Benjamin Woolley (Cuths) – historian and biographer
  Julian Wright – Professor of History at Northumbria University; co-editor of French History
caption: Liz James, art historian
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