Sir Charles Harding Firth was a British historian. He was one of the founders of the Historical Association in 1906. Esmond de Beer wrote that Firth "knew the men and women of the seventeenth century much as a man knows his friends and acquaintances,not only as characters but also in the whole moral and intellectual world in which they lived."
Whig history is an approach to historiography that presents history as a journey from an oppressive and benighted past to a "glorious present". The present described is generally one with modern forms of liberal democracy and constitutional monarchy:it was originally a term for the metanarratives praising Britain's adoption of constitutional monarchy and the historical development of the Westminster system. The term has also been applied widely in historical disciplines outside of British history to describe "any subjection of history to what is essentially a teleological view of the historical process". When the term is used in contexts other than British history,"whig history" (lowercase) is preferred.
Maurice John Cowling was a British historian. A fellow of Peterhouse,Cambridge,for most of his career,Cowling was a leading conservative exponent of the 'high politics' approach to political history.
Sir Herbert Butterfield was an English historian and philosopher of history,who was Regius Professor of Modern History and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. He is remembered chiefly for a short volume early in his career entitled The Whig Interpretation of History (1931) and for his Origins of Modern Science (1949). Butterfield turned increasingly to historiography and man's developing view of the past. Butterfield was a devout Christian and reflected at length on Christian influences in historical perspectives.
John Hugh "Adam" Watson was a British International relations theorist and researcher. Alongside Hedley Bull,Martin Wight,Herbert Butterfield,and others,he was one of the founding members of the English school of international relations theory.
Sir Brian Howard Harrison is a British historian and academic. From 1996 to 2004,he was Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford. From 2000 to 2004,he was also the editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
John McManners was a British clergyman and historian of religion who specialized in the history of the church and other aspects of religious life in 18th-century France. He was Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History at the University of Oxford from 1972 to 1984. He also served as Fellow and Chaplain of All Souls College,Oxford,from 1964 to 2001.
Sir Denis William Brogan was a Scottish writer and historian.
Peter Astbury Brunt FBA was a British academic and ancient historian. He was Camden Professor of Ancient History at the University of Oxford from 1970 to 1982. During his career,he lectured at the University of St Andrews,Oriel College,Oxford,Gonville and Caius College,Cambridge,and Brasenose College,Oxford.
Vivian Hunter Galbraith was an English historian,fellow of the British Academy and Oxford Regius Professor of Modern History.
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.
Charles Loch Mowat was a British-born American historian.
Denis Mack Smith CBE FBA FRSL was an English historian who specialized in the history of Italy from the Risorgimento onwards. He is best known for his biographies of Garibaldi,Cavour and Mussolini,and for his single-volume Modern Italy:A Political History. He was named Grand Official of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in 1996.
John Patrick William Ehrman,FBA was a British historian,most notable for his three-volume biography of William Pitt the Younger. He wrote two volumes of the official British History of the Second World War;"Grand Strategy" Volumes V and VI.
Andrew John Boyd Hilton,FBA is a British historian and a professor and fellow of Trinity College,Cambridge. He specialises in modern British history,from the mid-18th century to the mid-19th century.
John Wyon Burrow,FBA was an English historian of intellectual history. His published works include assessments of the Whig interpretation of history and of historiography generally. According to The Independent:"John Burrow was one of the leading intellectual historians of his generation. His pioneering work marked the beginning of a more sophisticated approach to the history of the social sciences,one that did not treat the past as being of interest only in so far as it anticipated the present."
William Norman Hargreaves-Mawdsley was a British historian,and expert on the history of legal and academic dress.
Peter R. Ghosh is a British historian,specialising in the history of ideas and historiography. He was Jean Duffield Fellow in Modern History at St Anne's College,Oxford,and Professor of the History of Ideas at the Faculty of History,University of Oxford.
The historiography of the United Kingdom includes the historical and archival research and writing on the history of the United Kingdom,Great Britain,England,Scotland,Ireland,and Wales. For studies of the overseas empire see historiography of the British Empire.
Jane Eliza Procter Fellowships are scholarships supporting academic research at Princeton University. The Fellowships were endowed by William Cooper Procter in 1921–22,and named after his wife,Jane Eliza Johnston Procter (1864–1953). The original terms of the Fellowships were for three awards,"each with an annual stipend of two thousand dollars,upon which each year two British and one French scholar will have the privilege of residence in the Princeton Graduate College,and of pursuing advanced study and investigation". The Fellowships were to be appointed annually on the recommendation of the University of Oxford,the University of Cambridge,and the École Normale Supérieure.
