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Department of History

Emeritus and Other Former Academic Staff

Emeritus Professors

Please also see the list of History Department emeritus staff academic publications.

 
Emeritus Readers

Please also see the list of History Department emeritus staff academic publications.

 
Former Academic Staff

  • Alan Armstrong, 1968-70, agrarian history

  • James Baldwin, 2014-2016, The legal, social and political history of Ottoman Egypt during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

  • Volker Berghahn, c1976-90, Chair 1977-80, 19-20th c German history

  • Trevor Burnard, 2007-11, Chair 2009/10, British Atlantic world; colonial Caribbean history; history of slavery

  • Alice Brooke, (2011-12) Colonial Latin American literature; drama and religion; early modern women´s writing; contemporary Latin American poetry by women

  • Howard Chiang, 2012-2016, Modern Chinese History and Cultural Studies; History of Science and Medicine; Gender, Sexuality, and the Body; Sinophone Postcolonial Studies; Critical Theory and Quantitative Methodology in the Social Sciences

  • Chris Clark (1998-2005), Professor of 19th c American history

  • Robin Clifton, (1965-2000), early modern England, war and history in memoriam page

  • Edward Countryman, c.1973-94, 18th-19th c US history

  • Manuel Covo, 2015-2016, the history of the Caribbean and North America in the Atlantic world

  • Stephane van Damme, 2007-09, modern French history

  • Angela Davis, 2007-2018, The history of motherhood in post-war Britain and Jewish maternity in England and Israel, with an emphasis on oral history

  • John Davis, c1971-92, 19th century Italian history

  • Bronwen Everill, 2011-13, history of humanitarian movements and their connections to European and American imperial expansion in Africa in the nineteenth and early twentieth century

  • Margot Finn, 2002-12, Chair 2006-09, 19th century British social and cultural history of gender, consumption and law

  • Robert Fletcher, 2015-2020, History of Britain and Empire

  • Anthony Glees, 1970s, history of intelligence

  • Gabriel Glickman, 2012-2015, British politics and religion c.1660-1750, concentrating on the significance of the international context

  • Austin Gough, 1965, modern French history

  • Joachim Häberlen, 2013-22, modern European history

  • Sir John Hale, 1964-69, founding Chair, Professor of Italian (d.1999)

  • Royden Harrison, Director of the Centre for Social History, labour history

  • Alistair Hennessy, (1966-1995) OBE, MA, DPhil Oxf (d.2013) in memoriam page

  • Chris Hess, 2007-12, modern Chinese history

  • Steve Hindle, 1995-2011, Chair 2010-11, early modern English social history

  • Sarah Hodges, c.2002-2022, modern South Asian history

  • Gerd-Rainer Horn, 2001-12, Professor of Twentieth century history, transnational continental Western European social movements from the 1920s to the 1980s; antifascism and resistance movements; New Left and "1968"; progressive Catholicism

  • Ibrahim Ibrahim, 1965-68, religion and society

  • Colin Jones, (1995-2006) Chair 1998-2001, 18th c France, medical history

  • Henry Kamen, 1966-92, early modern Spanish history

  • Lionel Kochan, c1970-94, Jewish history

  • Joan Lane, c1975-98, history of medicine (d.c.1998)

  • Mia Lee, 2009-12, history of modern Germany

  • Robin Lenman, 1971-2004, modern German history (d.2022) in memoriam page

  • Mark Levene, (1993-1997) Jewish history

  • Gwynne Lewis, (1968-1997) BA Wales, MA Manc, DPhil Oxf, FRHistS (d.2014) obituary

  • Mathew Lockwood, 2016-17, History of crime, criminal justice and the law in early modern Britain

  • Martin Lowry, c1970-2002, Italian Renaissance, early history of the book (d.2002)

  • Roger Magraw, (1968-2006) BA, DPhil Oxf (d.2014) in memoriam page. obituary

  • Patrick Major, 1991-2008, modern German history

  • Michael Mallett, (1967-1999) OBE, MA, DPhil Oxf, FRHistS (d.2008) obituary

  • Tony Mason, c1970-2000, Director of the Centre for Social History, 19th-20th social, labour and sport history

  • Celeste McNamara, 2015-18, Early Modern Italy; Protestant and Catholic Reformations; Medieval and Early Modern Christianity

  • John Miller, mid 1970s

  • Rana Mitter, c1997-2000, 20th c Chinese history

  • David Montgomery, c1969-71/2

  • Adam Morton, 2012-13, Visual culture and Anti-Catholicism in early modern England, from the Reformation to the Glorious Revolution

  • Callum MacDonald, c1975-97, Professor of US Foreign Policy (d.1997)

  • Hugh McLeod- c1970-2, 19th century religious history

  • Julia McClure, 2015-2017, Pre-Modern Global History, The Spanish Empire, The History of Poverty, The transatlantic World, Global Intellectual History

  • David Nye, 2004-06, Professor of American history

  • Jim Obelkevich, mid 1970s, 18th-19th social history

  • Meleisa Ono-George, 2016-2021, Director of Student Experience

  • Dick Parker, 1965-70/1

  • Chris Pearson, 2010-12, Modern French history; environmental history, especially the environmental history of war; animal history

  • Rosa Salzberg, 2010-2021, Associate Professor of Italian Renaissance History
  • Sarah Richardson 1988-2023, modern British political and gender history.

  • Mike Shepherd, c1972-c1983, 18th century British history

  • Emma Spary, 1995- c2000, history of science

  • E P Thompson, 1965-late 70s, founder of Centre for Social History

  • Selina Todd, 2005-07, 20th century British history

  • Malcolm Vale, 1969-71, early modern French history

  • Dror Wahrman, 1995-c2001, 18th-19th century British history

  • David Washbrook, c1974-92, Indian history (d.2021) in memoriam page obituary