Thomas May

Thomas May

male, deceased (1650)
Member of Gray's Inn, poet, English Civil War, UniversityofCambridge, elizabeth, lucan…historian, first Battle of Newbury, The Victorious Reigne of King Edward III, The Reigne of King Henry II, Battle of Newbury, 1643
Thomas May was a poet and historian. May was born in Mayfield, the son of Sir Thomas May. He went to Cambridge, and then to Gray's Inn, but...
Quentin Skinner

Quentin Skinner

male, 69 years old
Old Bedfordian, Quentin Robert Duthie Skinner, Regius Professor of Modern History, Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, Queen Mary, University of London…UniversityofCambridge, historian, cambridge university
Quentin Robert Duthie Skinner (born 26 November 1940) is Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University. He will be a distinguished...
Christopher Lee

Christopher Lee

male
writer, BBC Radio 4, Queen Victoria, Elizabeth I, Lord Carrington, The History Boys…The Trial of Walter Ralegh, UniversityofCambridge, battle of trafalgar, University of London, historian
Christopher Lee is a British writer and historian, best-known for writing the radio series "This Sceptred Isle" for the BBC. Lee was the first...

John Baker

male
LLB, Queen's Counsel, LLD, called to the bar, Chelmsford, King Edward VI Grammar School…St Catharine's College, Cambridge, legal historian, Downing Professor of the Laws of England, The Reports of Sir John Spelman, University of Chicago
Sir John (Hamilton) Baker, LLB PhD London MA LLD Cambridge LLD honoris causa Chicago Barrister-at-Law Inner Temple and Gray’s Inn Honorary Be...
Roy Porter

Roy Porter

male, deceased (2002)
Wilson's School, Kingdom of Great Britain, briton, South London, Andrew Wheatcroft, age of enlightenment…UniversityofCambridge, historian, Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge, Churchill College, Cambridge, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine
Roy Porter (31 December 1946 to 3 March 2002) was a British historian noted for his work on the history of medicine. He grew up in South London and...
Peter Burke

Peter Burke

male, 72 years old
historian, Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe, A Social History of Knowledge, Varieties of cultural history, The Fabrication of Louis XIV, History and Social Theory…The Art of Conversation, sussex university, UniversityofCambridge, Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Peter Burke (born 1937) is a British historian. He was educated by the Jesuits and at St John's College, Oxford, where he obtained his doctorate....
Richard Holmes

Richard Holmes

male, 63 years old
World War I historian, Military writer, commission, British Army, Army Officer, University of Reading…Order of the British Empire, Alumni of the University of Cambridge, Academic of Cranfield University, Officer of the British Empire, Recipient of the Territorial Decoration
Edward Richard Holmes CBE TD JP (born March 29 1946), known as Richard Holmes, is a British soldier and noted military historian, particularly...

Simon Schaffer

male, 54 years old
Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge, Varndean College, Harvard University, British Broadcasting Company, History and Philosophy of Science, Willem-Alexander…UniversityofCambridge, Historian of science, historian, cambridge university
Simon Schaffer (born 1 January 1955) was born in Brighton and was educated at Varndean Grammar School for Boys (now Varndean College). He is a...
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