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

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
	Raphael Samuel	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)
	Hugh Stretton	1946	Urban history	"one of Australia's leading public intellectuals"
	Fin Crisp	1938	Political science	Rhodes Scholar, “The Parliamentary Government of the Commonwealth of Australia” 1949
	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
	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
	Anthony Teasdale	1975	History of the European Union
	Philip Nord	1971	History of France
	Jeremy Lawrance	1971	History of Spain	FBA
	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
	Tapan Raychaudhuri	1953	History of India
	Manning Clark	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"
	Max Crawford	1927	History of Australia	first secretary to the Australian legation in the Soviet Union WW2
	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"
	Gerald Aylmer	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"
	Jeremy Catto	1958	History of Education	Fellow at Oriel College "The History of the University of Oxford"
	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
	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
	Jasper Griffin	1956	Classics	FBA, Fellow, Public Orator
	Martin Litchfield West	1955	Ancient Greek	OM, FBA,"a man of few words in seven languages"
	Robin Nisbet	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
	Roland Gregory Austin	1919	Philology	Virgil, Professor, Liverpool University
	Edgar Lobel	1907	Classical Philology	Hon Fellow declined knighthood Oxyrhynchus Papyri
	H. J. Rose	1904	Greek mythology	Rhodes Scholar, FBA chess player "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
	William Hardie	1880	Classics	Fellow Professor of Humanity at Edinburgh University
	Robert Scott	1835	Philology	Master "A Greek-English Lexicon"
	David Binning Monro	1854	Homer	FBA Vice-Chancellor
	Robinson Ellis	1852	Classical Latin	Catullus Corpus Professor of Latin
	William Young Sellar	1842	Latin poetry	FRSE Professor of Humanity at Edinburgh University

Writers

Novelists, playwrights and screenwriters

Image	Name	Join Date	Theme	Comments	Refs
	Rana Dasgupta	1990	globalisation	Tokyo Cancelled
	Zia Haider Rahman	1987	trust	In the Light of What We Know
	Amit Chaudhuri	1987	creative writing	"A Strange and sublime address"
	Charlotte Jones	1986	playwright	The Halcyon WW2 period drama TV series
	Ian Watson	1960	science fiction	Warhammer 40,000 trilogy
	Robert Barnard	1956	crime fiction	"Death of an Old Goat"
	Kyril Bonfiglioli	1955	comedy thriller	Mortdecai
	W. J. Burley	1950	detective story	Wycliffe
	Dan Davin	1936	New Zealand	Rhodes Scholar, Fellow "Cliffs of Fall"
	Robertson Davies	1935	trilogy	One 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 Trilogy
	Anthony Powell	1923	book series	His famous series A Dance to the Music of Time (ranked 36th on the BBC list of 100 greatest British novels ) earned him the title 'The English Proust'.
	Graham Greene	1922	thriller	One 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 Glory
	Nevil Shute	1918	dignity of work	His 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 century
	Beverley Nichols	1916	emotions	"Down the Garden Path"
	L. P. Hartley	1915	family relationships	wrote of morality, society and the loss of innocence The The Go-Between was made into a film.
	Aldous Huxley	1913	dystopian fiction	author 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 1962
	Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins	1881	adventure fiction	The Prisoner of Zenda
	William Hurrell Mallock	1869	novel	Catholic writer who opposed socialism The new republic

Biographers including auto-biographers

Image	Name	Join Date	Theme	Comments	Refs
	Howard Marks	1964	cannabis dealer	Mr Nice
	Ved Mehta	1956	author	Fellow, blind autobiographer in several books
	Warren Rovetch	1949	travel writer	Fulbright Scholar The Creaky Traveler
	Nicholas Mosley	1946	novelist	peer, wrote critical biography of his father, the fascist Sir Oswald Mosley
	Francis King	1941	novelist	Yesterday Came Suddenly, 1993 autobiography
	Peter Quennell	1923	historical writer	"the last genuine example of the English man of letters"
	John Stewart Collis	1918	biographer	biography of George Bernard Shaw The Worm Forgives the Plough about working the land in WWII
	Sir Sidney Lee	1878	man of letters	editor, Dictionary of National Biography
	John Addington Symonds	1857	biographer	wrote on Percy Bysshe Shelley, Michelangelo et al.
	John Gibson Lockhart	1809	novelist biographer	wrote standard biography of Sir Walter Scott, his father-in-law
	John Evelyn	1637	diarist	FRS did not graduate