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Regius Professor A Regius Professor is a university Professor (highest academic rank), professor who has, or originally had, Monarchy of the United Kingdom, royal patronage or appointment. They are a unique feature of academia in the United Kingdom and Republic ...

History History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the Human history, human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some t ...

(until 2011, Modern History) at the

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is a long-established professorial position. Holders of the title have often been

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historians. The first appointment was made in 1724. The term "Regius" reflects the origins of the post as a royal appointment, itself a recognition of the important influence of history. The Regius Professor of History is ''

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'' a Fellow of

Oriel College Oriel College () is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in Oxford, England. Located in Oriel Square, the college has the distinction of being the oldest royal foundation in Oxford (a title formerly claimed by University College, ...

. Professor Lyndal Roper has held the Regius Professorship since 2011, the first woman (and the first Australian) to have done so.

Past holders (complete)

*1724–1736 – David Gregory *1736–1742 – William Holmes *1742–1768 – Joseph Spence *1768–1771 – John Vivian *1771–1801 – Thomas Nowell *1801–1813 –

Henry Beeke Henry Beeke (6 January 1751 – 9 March 1837) was an English historian, theologian, writer on taxation and finance, and botanist. He is credited with helping to introduce the world's first modern income tax. Career Beeke was elected a scholar o ...

*1813–1841 – Edward Nares *1841–1842 –

Thomas Arnold Thomas Arnold (13 June 1795 – 12 June 1842) was an English educator and historian. He was an early supporter of the Broad Church Anglican movement. As headmaster of Rugby School from 1828 to 1841, he introduced several reforms that were widel ...

*1842–1848 – John Antony Cramer *1848–1858 – Henry Halford Vaughan *1858–1866 – Goldwin Smith *1866–1884 –

William Stubbs William Stubbs (21 June 182522 April 1901) was an English historian and Anglican bishop. He was Regius Professor of History (Oxford), Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford between 1866 and 1884. He was Bishop of Ches ...

*1884–1892 – Edward Augustus Freeman *1892–1894 – James Anthony Froude *1894–1904 –

Frederick York Powell Frederick York Powell (4 January 1850 – 8 May 1904) was an English historian and scholar. Biography He was born on 4 January 1850 at 43 Woburn Place, Bloomsbury, London, the son of Frederick Powell, a commissariat merchant, and his wife Ma ...

*1904–1925 –

Charles Harding Firth Sir Charles Harding Firth (16 March 1857 – 19 February 1936) 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 ...

*1925–1928 – Henry William Carless Davis *1928–1947 – Maurice Powicke *1947–1957 – Vivian Hunter Galbraith *1957–1980 –

Hugh Trevor-Roper Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton, (15 January 1914 – 26 January 2003) was an English historian. He was Regius Professor of Modern History (Oxford), Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford. Trevor-Rope ...

*1980–1989 –

Michael Eliot Howard Sir Michael Eliot Howard (29 November 1922 – 30 November 2019) was an English military historian, formerly Chichele Professor of the History of War, Honorary Fellow of All Souls College, Regius Professor of Modern History at the University ...

*1990–1997 – John Huxtable Elliott *1997–2011 – Robert John Weston Evans *2011– – Lyndal Roper

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Past holders (complete)

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