James Martineau was a British religious philosopher influential in the history of Unitarianism.
The Boyle Lectures are named after Robert Boyle,a prominent natural philosopher of the 17th century and son of Richard Boyle,1st Earl of Cork. Under the terms of his Will,Robert Boyle endowed a series of lectures or sermons which were to consider the relationship between Christianity and the new natural philosophy then emerging in European society.
Robert McCredie May,Baron May of Oxford,HonFAIB was an Australian scientist who was Chief Scientific Adviser to the UK Government,President of the Royal Society,and a professor at the University of Sydney and Princeton University. He held joint professorships at the University of Oxford and Imperial College London. He was also a crossbench member of the House of Lords from 2001 until his retirement in 2017.
Richard Henry Tawney was an English economic historian,social critic,ethical socialist,Christian socialist,and important proponent of adult education. The Oxford Companion to British History (1997) explained that Tawney made a "significant impact" in all four of these "interrelated roles". A. L. Rowse goes further by insisting that "Tawney exercised the widest influence of any historian of his time,politically,socially and,above all,educationally".
John Skorupski is a British philosopher whose main interests are epistemology,ethics and moral philosophy,political philosophy,and the history of 19th and 20th century philosophy. He is best known for his work on John Stuart Mill and his study of normativity,The Domain of Reasons.
Sir Frederick Maurice Powicke (1879–1963) was an English medieval historian. He was a Fellow of Merton College,Oxford,a professor at Queen's University,Belfast and Manchester,and from 1928 until his retirement Regius Professor at the University of Oxford. He was made a Knight Bachelor in 1946.
Sir Hrothgar John Habakkuk was a British economic historian.
Lawrence Goldman is an English historian and the former director of the Institute of Historical Research. A former editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography,he has a PhD from the University of Cambridge. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Martin John Millett,is a British archaeologist and academic. He is the Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Cambridge and a professorial fellow of Fitzwilliam College,Cambridge. Since 2021,he has been president of the Society of Antiquaries of London.
Sir James Clarke Holt,also known as J. C. Holt and Jim Holt,was an English medieval historian,known particularly for his work on Magna Carta. He was the third Master of Fitzwilliam College,Cambridge,serving between 1981 and 1988.
Sir Keith Vivian Thomas is a Welsh historian of the early modern world based at Oxford University. He is best known as the author of Religion and the Decline of Magic and Man and the Natural World. From 1986 to 2000,he was president of Corpus Christi College,Oxford.
Colin Archibald Russell was Emeritus Professor of History of Science and Technology at the Open University and was a research scholar affiliated to the History and Philosophy of Science Department,Cambridge University. His chief research interests were in the fields of the history of chemistry,environmental history and history of science and religion.
William Chaderton was an English academic and bishop. He also served as Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity.
Geoffrey N. Cantor is Emeritus Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Leeds and Honorary Senior Research Associate at UCL Department of Science and Technology Studies at University College London. He has written about Michael Faraday,the wave theory of light and the responses of the Quaker and Jewish religions to science. With John Hedley Brooke he delivered the 1995–1996 Gifford Lecture at the University of Glasgow,which were subsequently published as Reconstructing Nature:The Engagement of Science and Religion in 1998. He contributed to the SciPer Project,which researches the popularization of science in the periodicals of the 19th century,such as the Boy's Own Paper and Punch,and has lectured upon this subject at the Royal Institution in 2005.
William Linn St Clair,was a British historian,senior research fellow at the Institute of English Studies,School of Advanced Study,University of London,and author.
George Edmundson was a clergyman of the Church of England and academic historian of the University of Oxford. He took up benefices in Northolt and Chelsea and in retirement lived in the south of France.
Harris Manchester College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. It was founded in Warrington in 1757 as a college for Unitarian students and moved to Oxford in 1893. It became a full college of the university in 1996,taking its current name to commemorate its predecessor the Manchester Academy and a benefaction by Lord Harris of Peckham.
Christopher Robert Cheney was a medieval historian,noted for his work on the medieval English church and the relations of the papacy with England,particularly in the age of Pope Innocent III.
Dr. Robert Fox MA,DPhil,FSA FRHistS is a leading British authority on the history of science. He is interested in the history of sciences and technology in Europe from the 18th century onwards. He has published extensively. His book The Savant and the State examines science,culture and politics in France between 1814 and 1914,while Science without Frontiers examines developments from the late nineteenth-century until the Second World War. In 2015,Fox received the George Sarton Medal,the premier award of the international History of Science Society (HSS). He was recognized as a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by France's Ministry of Culture in 2006.
Jose Ferial Harris,FBA,FRHistS is a historian and retired academic. She was Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford from 1996 to 2008,and a fellow and tutor at St Catherine's College,Oxford,from 1978 to 1997.
