Sir Ernest Llewellyn Woodward, FBA (1890–1971) was a British

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. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and

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, and after the

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became a lecturer in Modern History and fellow of

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from 1919 to 1944 and a fellow at New College from 1922 to 1939. Later he was

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(1944–1947) and then Professor of Modern History at Oxford. He later taught at

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in the

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(1951–1962). His scope was impressively wide, his first publication being on the late

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whilst on sick leave from service in the First World War but his most famous works being on the First World War. He wrote ''The Age of Reform'' in the ''

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''.

Bibliography

* ''Great Britain and the German Navy'' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1935) * ''The Age of Reform, 1815–1870'' (Clarendon Press, 1938
online
* ''Short Journey'' utobiography(Faber and Faber, 1942) * ''British Historians'' (1943
online
* ''The Study of International Relations at a University: An Inaugural Lecture'' (Clarendon Press, 1945) * ''History of England'' - Home Study Series - (Methuen, 1947) * ''British Foreign Policy in the Second World War'' (HM Stationery Office, 1962
online
* ''Three studies in European conservatism: Metternich, Guizot, the Catholic Church in the nineteenth century'' (1963
online
* ''War and peace in Europe, 1815-1870, and other essays'' (1963
online
* "The Study of Contemporary History." ''Journal of Contemporary History'' (1966) 1#1 pp: 1–13
in JSTOR
* ''Great Britain and the War of 1914–1918'' (Beacon Press, 1970) * ''Prelude to modern Europe, 1815–1914'' (1972
online

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* People educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood 1890 births 1971 deaths Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Oxford Institute for Advanced Study faculty Historians of World War I Fellows of New College, Oxford Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford Montague Burton Professors of International Relations (University of Oxford) 20th-century British historians Knights Bachelor British expatriate academics in the United States {{UK-historian-stub