1. Sam Willis (1977)

British Historian

Historian and broadcaster best recognized for presenting the historical shows Shipwrecks: Britain's Sunken History, Castles: Britain’s Fortified History, and Britain’s Outlaws: Highwaymen, Pirates & Rogues.

2. Jan Morris (1926)

British Historian

Travel writer whose expositions of Hong Kong, Venice, and Oxford brought her widespread attention. Her most famous work, the Pax Britannica trilogy, was published between 1968 and 1978.

3. Ian Kershaw (1943)

British Historian

A famous English author and historian, he is best known for his non-fiction work about Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime. His best-known works include Hitler: A Profile in Power...

4. Simon Schama (1945)

British Historian

British historian who first gained notice after the release of his 1989 book about the French Revolution titled Citizens. He has also worked as a University Professor of History and...

5. Niall Ferguson (1964)

British Historian

Known for his works on economics, global history, and imperialism, he penned such titles as The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World and Empire: How Britain Made...

6. Dominic Sandbrook (1974)

British Historian

Dominic Sandbrook is a British historian and author.

7. Beatrice Webb (1858)

British Historian

Martha Beatrice Webb Baroness Passfield was an English sociologist economist socialist labor historian and social reformer. Her husband Sidney became Baron Passfield in 1929. Along with her husband and numerous...

8. Laurence Westgaph (1975)

British Historian

Laurence Westgaph is a British historian activist and television presenter specialising in British black history and slavery.

9. R. I. Moore (1941)

British Historian

Robert Ian Moore most commonly known as R. I. Moore is Professor Emeritus of History at Newcastle University. He specializes in medieval history has written several influential works on the...

10. Peter Mandler (Unknow)

British Historian

Peter Mandler is a historian at the University of Cambridge. He focuses on 19th and 20th century British history particularly cultural history and the history of the social sciences. He...

11. Duncan Tanner (1958)

British Historian

Duncan Tanner was a political historian and academic. His best-known work covered the British Labour Party and voting in the early 20th Century. He held the post of director of...

12. E. H. H. Green (Unknow)

British Historian

Ewen Henry Harvey Green known as E. H. H.

13. Robert William Davies (1925)

British Historian

Robert William Davies best known as R. W. Davies is professor emeritus of Soviet Economic Studies University of Birmingham. He was born in London. He served in the Royal Air...

14. Harold Murray (1868)

British Historian

Harold James Ruthven Murray was an English educationalist inspector of schools and prominent chess historian. He was the first to publish the theory that chess originated in India.

15. Mark Mazower (1958)

British Historian

Mark A. Mazower is a British historian. His expertise is Greece the Balkans and more generally 20th century Europe. He is currently a professor of history at Columbia University in...

16. John Julius Norwich (1929)

British Historian

John Julius Cooper 2nd Viscount Norwich CVO known as John Julius Norwich is an English historian travel writer and television personality.

17. Barbara Levick (1931)

British Historian

Barbara M. Levick is a British historian specializing in ancient history. She was educated at St Hugh's College Oxford and since 1959 has been a Fellow of St Hilda's College...

18. Noreen Branson (1910)

British Historian

Noreen Branson was a communist activist and historian of the Communist Party of Great Britain. She worked for the Labour Research Department from 1938 until her death editing its magazine...

19. Henry Mayr-Harting (1936)

British Historian

Henry Maria Robert Egmont Mayr-Harting was Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the University of Oxford and Lay Canon of Christ Church Oxford from 1997 until 2003. Mayr-Harting was born...

20. Ambrose Bebb (1894)

British Historian

Ambrose Bebb was a Welsh author and politician. Ambrose Bebb was the son of diarist Edward Hughes Bebb and the father of noted Welsh rugby international Dewi Bebb. The family...

21. John Stoughton (1807)

British Historian

John Stoughton was an English Nonconformist minister and historian.

22. Geoffrey Hosking (1942)

British Historian

Geoffrey Alan Hosking FBA FRHistS is a British historian of Russia and the Soviet Union and formerly Leverhulme Research Professor of Russian History at the School of Slavonic and East...

23. Harold James (historian) (1956)

British Historian

Harold Douglas James is a renowned historian specializing in the history of Germany and European economic history. James is a prolific author having published dozens of books and articles in...

24. Glyn Parry (historian) (Unknow)

British Historian

Glyndwr John Robert Parry FRHistS was born in Tredegar Monmouthshire on October 31 1953. He attended the University of Cambridge gaining with a PhD in History in 1981. In 1987...

25. Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914)

British Historian

Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper Baron Dacre of Glanton was an English historian of early modern Britain and National Socialist German Workers' Party Germany and Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford...

26. David Crouch (historian) (Unknow)

British Historian

David Crouch is a Welsh historian and Professor of Medieval History at the University of Hull. He graduated in history from the former University College Cardiff in 1975 and went...

27. Anthony Seldon (1953)

British Historian

Anthony Francis Seldon MA PhD FRSA PGCE MBA FRHistS FKC is a British schoolmaster and a contemporary historian commentator and political author known in part for his biographies of John...

28. Martin Goodman (historian) (1953)

British Historian

Martin David Goodman is an historian and writer on Roman history and the history and literature of the Jews in the Roman period. Goodman was educated at Trinity College Oxford...

29. Lewis Bernstein Namier (1888)

British Historian

Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier was a British historian. He was born Ludwik Niemirowski in Wola Okrzejska in what was then part of the Russian Empire and is now in Poland....

30. Bernard Wasserstein (1948)

British Historian

Bernard Wasserstein is a professor of history. Wasserstein was born in London and educated at the High School of Glasgow and at Wyggeston Boys' Grammar School Leicester. He gained a...

31. William Gibson (historian) (Unknow)

British Historian

Thomas Gibson is a historian academic and professor who specialises in the history of religion in Britain in the early modern period.

32. James Taylor (British author and historian) (1963)

British Historian

James Taylor MA FRSA is a British author expert on maritime art and former curator of the National Maritime Museum Greenwich east London.

33. Rosamond McKitterick (1949)

British Historian

Rosamond Deborah McKitterick is one of Britain's foremost medieval historians. Since 1999 she has been Professor of Medieval History at the University of Cambridge where she is a Fellow of...

34. Julian T. Jackson (1954)

British Historian

Julian Timothy Jackson is a prominent British historian. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Historical Society. Professor of History at Queen Mary University of...

35. Linda Colley (1949)

British Historian

Linda Colley CBE FBA FRSL FRHistS is a historian of Britain empire and nationalism. She is currently Shelby M. C. Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton University in the...

36. Stephen Bungay (1954)

British Historian

Stephen Bungay is a British management consultant historian and author who has made a special study of the Battle of Britain. He read Modern Languages at Oxford where he received...

37. Boris Rankov (Unknow)

British Historian

Boris Rankov is a professor of Roman history at Royal Holloway University of London. He was born August 9 1954. Educated at Bradford Grammar School then subsequently Corpus Christi College...

38. James Raven (1959)

British Historian

James Russell Raven LittD FSA is a British historian.

39. Christopher Wickham (1950)

British Historian

Christopher John Wickham FBA FLSW is Chichele Professor of Medieval History at the University of Oxford and Fellow of All Souls College. He was Professor of Early Medieval History at...

40. Robert J. C. Young (1950)

British Historian

Robert J. C. Young FBA is a British postcolonial theorist cultural critic and historian.

41. David Cannadine (1950)

British Historian

Sir David Nicholas Cannadine FBA FRSL FRHistS is a British historian known for a number of books including The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy and Ornamentalism. He is...

42. J. C. D. Clark (1951)

British Historian

Jonathan Charles Douglas Clark is a British historian of both British and American history. He received his undergraduate degree at Downing College Cambridge. Having previously held posts at Peterhouse Cambridge...

43. Diarmaid MacCulloch (1951)

British Historian

Diarmaid Ninian John MacCulloch Kt FBA FSA FRHistS is Professor of the History of the Church in the University of Oxford and Fellow of St Cross College Oxford. Though ordained...

44. Jeremy Black (assyriologist) (1951)

British Historian

Jeremy Allen Black BA BPhil MA DPhil was a British Assyriologist and Sumerologist founder of the online Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature. Black was born in Isleworth Middlesex England...

45. Alison Weir (1951)

British Historian

Alison Weir is a British writer of history books and latterly historical novels mostly in the form of biographies about British royalty. Her works on the Tudor period have made...

46. Amanda Vickery (1962)

British Historian

Amanda Vickery is a British historian writer radio and television presenter and professor of early modern history at Queen Mary University of London.

47. William Tooke (1777)

British Historian

Tooke was a British clergyman and historian of Russia.

48. Robert Gildea (1952)

British Historian

Robert Nigel Gildea is professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford and is the author of several influential books on 20th century French history. He was educated at...

49. Philip A. Haigh (1964)

British Historian

Philip Andrew Haigh is a British I. T. Professional TV presenter and writer of non-fiction military history books mostly on the subject of the Wars of the Roses although in...

50. Philip Jenkins (1952)

British Historian

Philip Jenkins is in 2013 the Distinguished Professor of History at Baylor University and Co-Director for Baylor's Program on Historical Studies of Religion in the Institute for Studies of Religion....