Oxbridge is a portmanteau of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge,the two oldest,wealthiest,and most famous universities in the United Kingdom. The term is used to refer to them collectively,in contrast to other British universities,and more broadly to describe characteristics reminiscent of them,often with implications of superior social or intellectual status or elitism.
William Camden was an English antiquarian,historian,topographer,and herald,best known as author of Britannia,the first chorographical survey of the islands of Great Britain and Ireland that relates landscape,geography,antiquarianism,and history,and the Annales,the first detailed historical account of the reign of Elizabeth I of England.
An antiquarian or antiquary is an aficionado or student of antiquities or things of the past. More specifically,the term is used for those who study history with particular attention to ancient artefacts,archaeological and historic sites,or historic archives and manuscripts. The essence of antiquarianism is a focus on the empirical evidence of the past,and is perhaps best encapsulated in the motto adopted by the 18th-century antiquary Sir Richard Colt Hoare,"We speak from facts,not theory."
The Battle of Dun Nechtain or Battle of Nechtansmere was fought between the Picts,led by King Bridei Mac Bili,and the Northumbrians,led by King Ecgfrith,on 20 May 685.
Browne Willis was an antiquary,author,numismatist and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1705 to 1708.
Robert Geoffrey William Anderson,is a British museum curator and historian of chemistry. He has wide-ranging interests in the history of chemistry,including the history of scientific instrumentation,the work of Joseph Black and Joseph Priestley,the history of museums,and the involvement of the working class in material culture. He has been Director of the Science Museum,London,the National Museums of Scotland,the British Museum,London,and president and CEO of the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia.
May McKisack was an Irish medievalist and academic. She was a professor of history at the University of London's Westfield College and at the University of Oxford in Somerville College. She was the author of The Fourteenth Century (1959) in the Oxford History of England.
David Hubert Boothby Chesshyre was a British officer of arms.
The bishop of Durham is responsible for the diocese of Durham in the province of York. The diocese is one of the oldest in England and its bishop is a member of the House of Lords. Paul Butler was the most recent bishop of Durham until his retirement in February 2024.
Christopher Howard Page is an English expert on medieval music,instruments and performance practice,together with the social and musical history of the guitar in England from the sixteenth century to the nineteenth. He has written numerous books regarding medieval music. He is currently a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College,Cambridge and Emeritus Professor of Medieval Music and Literature in the Faculty of English,University of Cambridge.
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1882 to Wales and its people.
Paul Alexander Slack FBA is a British historian. He is a former principal of Linacre College,Oxford,pro-vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford,and professor of early modern social history in the University of Oxford.
Sarah Rosamund Irvine Foot,is an English Anglican priest and early medieval historian. She has been Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Oxford since 2007,and Dean of Christ Church,Oxford since 2023.
Thomas Robert Williams is a Canadian university professor and academic administrator,who served as the 19th principal of Queen's University,in Kingston,Ontario. He became principal and vice-chancellor of Queen's on May 1,2008,following the in-term resignation of Karen Hitchcock. He concluded his term as principal on August 31,2009.
Alan Keir Bowman,is a British classicist and academic. He was Camden Professor of Ancient History at the University of Oxford from 2002 to 2010,and Principal of Brasenose College,Oxford,from 2011 to 2015.
During the early part of the 17th century,and persisting in some form into the early 18th century,there were a number of proposals for an English Academy:some form of learned institution,conceived as having royal backing and a leading role in the intellectual life of the nation. Definite calls for an English Academy came in 1617,based on the Italian model dating back to the 16th century;they were followed up later,after the 1635 founding of the French Académie,by John Dryden (1664),John Evelyn (1665),and Daniel Defoe (1697).
William John Blair,is an English historian,archaeologist,and academic,who specialises in Anglo-Saxon England. He is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History and Archaeology at the University of Oxford,and a Fellow of The Queen's College,Oxford. He gave the 2013 Ford Lectures at the University of Oxford.
Gregory Duncan Woolf,is a British ancient historian,archaeologist,and academic. He specialises in the late Iron Age and the Roman Empire. Since July 2021,he has been Ronald J. Mellor Chair of Ancient History at University of California,Los Angeles. He previously taught at the University of Leicester and the University of Oxford,and was then Professor of Ancient History at the University of St Andrews from 1998 to 2014. From 2015 to 2021,he was the Director of the Institute of Classical Studies,and Professor of Classics at the University of London.
William Mark Ormrod,was a Welsh historian who specialised in the Later Middle Ages of England. Born in South Wales,he studied at King's College,London,and then earned his Doctor of Philosophy at Worcester College,Oxford. He was employed at a number of institutions,eventually settling at the University of York where he became Dean of the History Faculty and director of the Centre for Medieval Studies. He researched and published widely,including nine books and over 80 book chapters. Ormrod retired in 2017 and died of cancer in 2020.
Robert Howard Hodgkin,who went by Robin,was an English historian. He taught at the Queen's College,Oxford,from 1900 to 1937 and served as its provost from 1937 until 1946. He was particularly known for his 1935 work,A History of the Anglo-Saxons,and for his 1949 book,Six Centuries of an Oxford College.
