The Smuts Professorship of Commonwealth History was established on 25 October 1952 as the Smuts Professorship of the History of the British Commonwealth; it was retitled in 1994. The professorship is assigned to the Faculty of

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List of Smuts Professors of Commonwealth History

* Philip Nicholas Seton Mansergh (1953–1970) *

Eric Thomas Stokes Eric Thomas Stokes (1924–1981) was a historian of South Asia, especially early-modern and colonial India, and of the British Empire. Stokes was the second holder of Smuts Professorship of the History of the British Commonwealth at the Univers ...

(1970–1981) * Donald Anthony Low (1983–1994) * A. G. Hopkins (1994–2002) * Megan Vaughan (2002–2016) *

Saul Dubow Saul H. Dubow, (born 28 October 1959) is a South African historian and academic, specialising in the history of South Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Since 2016, he has been the Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History at the U ...

(2017–)

References

Commonwealth History, Smuts School of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Cambridge 1952 establishments in England 1994 disestablishments in England Commonwealth History, Smuts {{history-stub