page_title: List of alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
section_title: Historians
hierarchical_section_title: List of alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge / Academics / Historians
caption_attribution_description: English: On Monday, January 28, 2019, the LBJ Foundation hosted a conversation with Andrew Roberts, a British historian and author of the recent bestseller Churchill: Walking with Destiny.
context_page_description: The following is a list of notable people educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. It includes alumni of Gonville Hall, as the college was known after its foundation in 1348, as well as those who studied at the college after its second foundation by John Caius in 1557. The college's alumni include politicians, civil servants, academics, athletes and business people. The college also has a long-standing association with medical teaching and has educated a number of significant physicians, including John Caius, William Harvey, Francis Crick and Howard Florey.
  Members of Gonville and Caius include fourteen Nobel Prize winners, the second-most of any Oxbridge college. Six of them were students at the college: Charles Scott Sherrington, James Chadwick, Francis Crick, Antony Hewish, Richard Stone and J. Michael Kosterlitz.
context_section_description: Tobias Abse — historian
  Francis Blomefield — historian of Norfolk
  Christopher N. L. Brooke — Dixie Professor of Ecclesiastical History, 1997–94; life fellow of the college until his death in 2015
  Rajnarayan Chandavarkar — historian of South Asia
  Alfred Cobban — historian of France
  Geoffrey Crossick — historian and Vice-Chancellor of London University, 2010–12
  I. E. S. Edwards — egyptologist, leading expert on Egyptian pyramids
  David Feldman — historian
  Orlando Figes — historian
  Harold James — historian
  Andrew Roberts — historian
  Colin Kidd — historian
  Richard Overy — historian
  Andrew Roberts — historian
  Simon Sebag Montefiore — historian and journalist
  Norman Stone — historian
  Lars Tharp — historian and broadcaster
  Stephen Tuck — historian, fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford
caption: Andrew Roberts
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