List of historians and classicists associated with Balliol College, Oxford explained

Historians

Political, social and economic historians

Image	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	[1]
		1952	Working Class	” one of the most outstanding, original intellectuals of his generation “
	R. M. Hartwell	1948	Industrial Revolution	"The Rising Standard of Living in England, 1800–1850" (1961)
		1946	Urban history	Rhodes Scholar, Fellow	"one of Australia's leading public intellectuals"
	Fin Crisp	1938	Political science	Rhodes Scholar, “The Parliamentary Government of the Commonwealth of Australia” 1949
	Peter Calvocoressi	1931	Post–Cold War era	World Politics Since 1945; World Politics 1945-2000	[2]
	Sir Denis Brogan	1923	History of the United States government	“The American Political System 1933
	Sir Lewis Namier	1908	The History of Parliament	The Structure of Politics in the C18th History of Parliament	[3]
	Arnold J. Toynbee	1907	international relations	FBA Professor LSE "A Study of History"	[4]
	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"
	Sir O. M. Edwards	1884	History of Wales	Chief Inspector of Schools for Wales MP for Merionethshire

European history

Image	Name	Join Date	Field of work	Comments	Refs
	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
	Frank McDonough	1985	Second World War
		1975	History of the European Union
		1971	History of France
	Jeremy Lawrance	1971	History of Spain	FBA		[5]
	Geoff Eley	1967	History of Germany
	James H. Billington	1950	History of Russia	Rhodes Scholar, 13th Librarian of Congress

Colonial historians

Image	Name	Join Date	Field of work	Comments	Refs
	Ronald Robinson	1971	British Empire	FBA, Fellow
	C. A. Bayly	1963	British Empire
		1953	History of India
		1938	History of Australia	"Australia's most famous historian"
	Daniel J. Boorstin	1934	History of America	12th Librarian of Congress
	John La Nauze	1932	History of Australia	Rhodes Scholar "Political Economy in Australia" 1949
	Sir Keith Hancock	1921	British Empire	Chichele Professor of Economic History, “The British War Economy” 1949
	Thomas Lionel Hodgkin	1928	History of Africa	Fellow Husband of Nobel Prize winner Dorothy Hodgkin son of historian Robert Howard Hodgkin and grandson of historian Thomas Hodgkin did "more than anyone to establish the serious study of African history"	[6] [7]
	Max Crawford	1927	History of Australia	first secretary to the Australian legation in the Soviet Union WW2	[8]
	Donald Creighton	1925	History of Canada	Warned against American domination

Modern historians

Image	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
	Bernard Wasserstein	1966	Jewish History

Early modern historians

Image	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"
		1943	17th Century	FBA, Fellow "Rebellion or Revolution?" 1986
	Christopher Hill	1931	English Civil War	FBA, Master of Balliol, Marxist "Intellectual Origins of the English Revolution" 1965 rev 1996
	Vivian Hunter Galbraith	1910	Domesday Book	Regius Professor of Modern History

Medievalists

Image	Name	Join Date	Field of work	Comments	Refs
	Patrick Wormald	1966	Anglo-Saxons	"The Making of English Law: King Alfred to the Twelfth Century"	[9]
	Jeremy Catto	1958	History of Education	Fellow at Oriel College "The History of the University of Oxford"	[10]
	Maurice Keen	1954	Chivalry	FBA, Fellow "English Society in the later Middle Ages" 1990
	Rodney Hilton	1935	Feudalism	FBA, Fellow, Marxist "Class Conflict and the Crisis of Feudalism" 1985
	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
	Richard Southern	1929	Middle Ages	FBA, Fellow Chichele Professor of Modern History "The Making of the Middle Ages"
	F. M. Powicke	1899	13th Century	FBA, Fellow of Merton College Regius Professor of Modern History "The Loss of Normandy" 1913
	Robert Howard Hodgkin	1895	Anglo-Saxons	Fellow at Queen's College father of Thomas Lionel Hodgkin ""Elizabeth of Bohemia" 1901
	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

Classicists

Image	Name	Join Date	Field of work	Comments	Refs
	Emily Wilson	1990	Odyssey Illiad	MacArthur Fellow Professor UPenn
	Oliver Lyne	1971	Latin poetry	Fellow Professor of Classical Languages and Literature	[11]
	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
	Timothy Barnes	1960	History of Christianity	FBA, Professor Toronto University
	Glen Bowersock	1957	Ancient history	Rhodes Scholar, Honorary Fellow
		1956	Classics	FBA, Fellow, Public Orator
	Martin Litchfield West	1955	Ancient Greek	OM, FBA,"a man of few words in seven languages"
		1947	Classical Latin	FBA, Snell Exhibitioner Corpus Christi Professor of Latin
	Russell Meiggs	1939	Ancient history	Fellow " Trees and timber in the ancient Mediterranean world " 1982
	Sir Kenneth Dover	1938	Ancient Greek	Fellow, President British Academy “Greek Homosexuality” 1978
	William Watt	1933	Classics	FBA, Fellow Regius Professor of Humanity, Aberdeen
	Richard William Hunt	1927	Paleography	Fellow Keeper of the Western Manuscripts at the Bodleian Library
	Sir Roger Mynors	1922	Classical Latin	FBA, Fellow Corpus Christi Professor of Latin "Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Balliol College, Oxford" 1963
		1919	Philology	Virgil, Professor, Liverpool University
	Edgar Lobel	1907	Classical Philology	Hon Fellow declined knighthood Oxyrhynchus Papyri
		1904	Greek mythology	Rhodes Scholar, FBA chess player[12] "A Handbook of Greek Mythology"
	Sir John Beazley	1903	Archaeology	CH, FBA Oxford Professor of Classical Archaeology Attic Vases
	Sir George Macdonald	1883	Archaeology	FBA Numismatics Antonine Wall	[13]
	William Hardie	1880	Classics	Fellow Professor of Humanity at Edinburgh University
	Robert Scott	1835	Philology	Master "A Greek-English Lexicon"	[14]
	David Binning Monro	1854	Homer	FBA Vice-Chancellor
		1852	Classical Latin	Catullus Corpus Professor of Latin
	William Young Sellar	1842	Latin poetry	FRSE Professor of Humanity at Edinburgh University

Notes and References

1. Balliol College Register (Sixth Edition) by John Jones and Catherine Willbery 1993
2. Balliol College Register (Fifth Edition) by John Jones and Sally Viney 1983
3. Balliol College Register (Third Edition) by Ivo Elliott 1953
4. Balliol College Register (Third Edition) by Ivo Elliott 1953
5. 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)
6. Floreat Domus 2015, May 26, 2015
7. News: Mr Thomas Hodgkin . . London . Obituary . 10 . 61,192 . 26 March 1982 .
8. Book: https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/crawford-raymond-maxwell-max-16260 . Australian Dictionary of Biography . Raymond Maxwell (Max) Crawford (1906–1991) . National Centre of Biography, Australian National University .
9. News: Patrick Wormald. 6 October 2004. Obituary. The Times.
10. News: Jeremy Catto. 21 August 2018. Obituary. Daily Telegraph.
11. News: Oliver Lyne . Obituary . The Telegraph . 30 March 2005.
12. Web site: Rose v Capablanca. ChessGames.com .
13. Web site: Russell. James. LES GRANDS NUMISMATES: George Macdonald (1862-1940; Kt 1927). 5 January 2018.
14. Web site: Balliol College . British History Online . 18 August 2024.