List of historians, classicists and writers associated with Balliol College, Oxford
This is a list of notable historians, classicists and writers associated with Balliol College, Oxford.

Historians
Political, social and economic historians
 ImageNameJoin DateField of workCommentsRefs Maxine Berg2009Industrial RevolutionFBA, Warwick University Professor Arthur Marwick1957Historiographer"The New Nature of History" 1971Balliol College Register (Sixth Edition) Raphael Samuel 1952Working Class” one of the most outstanding, original intellectuals of his generation “R. M. Hartwell1948Industrial Revolution "The Rising Standard of Living in England, 1800–1850" (1961)  Hugh Stretton 1946Urban history "one of Australia's leading public intellectuals" Fin Crisp1938Political scienceRhodes Scholar, “The Parliamentary Government of the Commonwealth of Australia” 1949Sir Denis Brogan1923 History of the United States government “The American Political System 1933100pxSir  Lewis Namier1908 The History of Parliament The Structure of Politics in the C18thHistory of Parliament Balliol College Register (Third Edition)100px R. H. Tawney1899 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" 100pxSir O. M. Edwards1884History of WalesChief Inspector of Schools for WalesMP for Merionethshire

European history
 ImageNameJoin DateField of workCommentsRefsLyndal Roper2002GermanyRhodes Scholar, FBA, Fellow Regius Professor of History, Oxford100px Timothy D. Snyder1995Central EuropeMarshall Scholar, FBA, Fellow, Yale Professor Frank McDonough 1985Second World War100px Anthony Teasdale  1975History of the European Union Philip Nord 1971History of France Jeremy Lawrance 1971History of SpainFBALAWRANCE, 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) Geoff Eley 1967History of Germany100px James H. Billington1950 History of RussiaRhodes Scholar, 13th Librarian of Congress

Colonial historians
 ImageNameJoin DateField of workCommentsRefs Ronald Robinson1971British EmpireFBA, FellowC. A. Bayly 1963British Empire100px Tapan Raychaudhuri  1953History of India Manning Clark 1938History of Australia"Australia's most famous historian"100pxDaniel J. Boorstin 1934History of America12th Librarian of Congress John La Nauze 1932History of AustraliaRhodes Scholar"Political Economy in Australia" 1949100pxSir Keith Hancock1921 British Empire Chichele Professor of Economic History, “The British War Economy” 1949 Thomas Lionel Hodgkin1928History of AfricaFellowHusband of Nobel Prize winner Dorothy Hodgkinson of historian Robert Howard Hodgkin and grandson of historian Thomas Hodgkindid "more than anyone to establish the serious study of African history" Floreat Domus 2015, May 26, 2015  Max Crawford1927 History of Australia first secretary to the Australian legation in the Soviet Union WW2100px Donald Creighton1925History of CanadaWarned against American domination

Modern historians

 ImageNameJoin dateField of workCommentsRefss100pxDan Snow1998popular historianson of Peter Snow 1958100pxDominic Sandbrook1992history podcaster"The Rest is History"Peter Hayes1968The HolocaustBernard Wasserstein1966Jewish History

Early modern historians
 ImageNameJoin DateField of workCommentsRefs100px Suzannah Lipscomb  2009Tudor dynasty"Not Just the Tudors"Sir  Keith Thomas 1952History of ReligionFBA, Hon Fellow"Religion and the Decline of Magic" Gerald Aylmer  194317th CenturyFBA, Fellow"Rebellion or Revolution?" 1986Christopher Hill1931English Civil WarFBA, Master of Balliol, Marxist"Intellectual Origins of the English Revolution" 1965 rev 1996Vivian Hunter Galbraith1910Domesday BookRegius Professor of Modern History

Medievalists
 ImageNameJoin DateField of workCommentsRefsPatrick Wormald1966Anglo-Saxons"The Making of English Law: King Alfred to the Twelfth Century" Jeremy Catto1958History of EducationFellow at Oriel College"The History of the University of Oxford" Maurice Keen1954ChivalryFBA, Fellow"English Society in the later Middle Ages" 1990 100pxRodney Hilton1935FeudalismFBA, Fellow, Marxist"Class Conflict and the Crisis of Feudalism" 1985R. H. C. Davis1937Medieval EuropeFBA, Fellow at Merton CollegeProfessor at BirminghamSon of H. W. C. Davis 1891"The Normans and their Myth" 1976Richard Southern1929Middle AgesFBA, FellowChichele Professor of Modern History"The Making of the Middle Ages"F. M. Powicke1899 13th CenturyFBA, Fellow of Merton CollegeRegius Professor of Modern History"The Loss of Normandy" 1913Robert Howard Hodgkin1895 Anglo-SaxonsFellow at Queen's Collegefather of Thomas Lionel Hodgkin""Elizabeth of Bohemia" 1901H. W. C. Davis1891 Medieval EuropeEditor of the Dictionary of National BiographyRegius Professor of Modern History"History of Balliol College" 1899 father of R. H. C. Davis

Classicists
 ImageNameJoin DateField of workCommentsRefs Oliver Lyne1971Latin poetryFellowProfessor of Classical Languages and LiteratureJonathan Barnes1961AristotleFBA, 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 scholarshipThe Complete Works of Aristotle, 2 vols, 1984; reprinted with corrections, 1995Timothy Barnes1960 History of ChristianityFBA, Professor Toronto University Glen Bowersock1957 Ancient history Rhodes Scholar, Honorary Fellow  Jasper Griffin 1956 ClassicsFBA, Fellow, Public OratorMartin Litchfield West 1955 Ancient GreekOM, FBA,"a man of few words in seven languages" Robin Nisbet 1947 Classical LatinFBA, Snell ExhibitionerCorpus Christi Professor of Latin  Russell Meiggs1939Ancient history Fellow" Trees and timber in the ancient Mediterranean world " 1982Sir Kenneth Dover1938Ancient Greek Fellow, President British Academy“Greek Homosexuality” 1978 William Watt 1933 ClassicsFBA, FellowRegius Professor of Humanity, AberdeenRichard William Hunt 1927 PaleographyFellowKeeper of the Western Manuscripts at the Bodleian LibrarySir Roger Mynors 1922Classical LatinFBA, FellowCorpus Christi Professor of Latin"Catalogue of the Manuscripts at Balliol College, Oxford" 1963 1919 PhilologyVirgil, Professor, Liverpool UniversityEdgar Lobel 1907 Classical Philology Hon Fellowdeclined knighthoodOxyrhynchus PapyriH. J. Rose 1904 Greek mythologyRhodes Scholar, FBA chess player"A Handbook of Greek Mythology"Sir John Beazley1903ArchaeologyCH, FBAOxford Professor of Classical ArchaeologyAttic VasesSir George Macdonald1883ArchaeologyFBANumismaticsAntonine WallWilliam Hardie 1880 ClassicsFellowProfessor of Humanity at Edinburgh UniversityRobert Scott1835  PhilologyMaster"A Greek-English Lexicon"David Binning Monro 1854HomerFBA Vice-ChancellorRobinson Ellis 1852 Classical LatinCatullusCorpus Professor of LatinWilliam Young Sellar 1842 Latin poetryFRSEProfessor of Humanity at Edinburgh University

Writers
Novelists, playwrights and screenwriters
 ImageNameJoin DateThemeCommentsRefs100pxRana Dasgupta1990globalisationTokyo Cancelled 100pxZia Haider Rahman1987trustIn the Light of What We Know 100pxAmit Chaudhuri1987creative writing"A Strange and sublime address" Charlotte Jones1986playwrightThe HalcyonWW2 period drama TV series100pxIan Watson1960science fictionWarhammer 40,000 trilogyRobert Barnard1956crime fiction"Death of an Old Goat"Kyril Bonfiglioli1955comedy thrillerMortdecaiW. J. Burley1950detective storyWycliffeDan Davin1936New ZealandRhodes Scholar, Fellow"Cliffs of Fall"100pxRobertson Davies1935trilogyOne 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.The Deptford TrilogyAnthony Powell1923book seriesHis famous series A Dance to the Music of Time (ranked 36th on the BBC list of 100 greatest British novels Ciabattari, Jane (7 December 2015). "The 100 greatest British novels". BBC. Retrieved 8 December 2015.) earned him the title 'The English Proust'.   100pxGraham Greene1922thrillerOne 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. The Power and the Glory100pxNevil Shute1918dignity of workHis 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 century100pxBeverley Nichols1916emotions"Down the Garden Path"100pxL. P. Hartley1915family relationshipswrote of morality, society and the loss of innocence The The Go-Between was made into a film.100pxAldous Huxley1913dystopian fictionauthor 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 1962100pxSir Anthony Hope Hawkins1881adventure fictionThe Prisoner of Zenda

Biographers  including auto-biographers
 ImageNameJoin DateThemeCommentsRefs100pxHoward Marks1964cannabis dealerMr NiceVed Mehta1956authorFellow, blindautobiographer in several booksWarren Rovetch 1949travel writerFulbright ScholarThe Creaky Traveler  Nicholas Mosley1946novelistpeer, wrote critical biography of his father, the fascist Sir Oswald Mosley Francis King1941novelistYesterday Came Suddenly, 1993 autobiography Peter Quennell1923historical writer"the last genuine example of the English man of letters"'Sir Peter Quennell', in The Times, 29 October 1993, p. 23. John Stewart Collis1918biographerbiography of George Bernard ShawThe Worm Forgives the Plough about working the land in WWII100pxSir Sidney Lee1878man of letterseditor, Dictionary of National BiographyBalliol College Register (Second Edition)100pxJohn Addington Symonds1857biographerwrote on Percy Bysshe Shelley, Michelangelo et al.Balliol College Register (Second Edition)100pxJohn Gibson Lockhart1809novelistbiographer wrote standard biography of Sir Walter Scott, his father-in-law100pxJohn Evelyn1637diaristFRSdid not graduate

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