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Saki
Hector Hugh Munro (18 December 1870 – 14 November 1916), popularly known by his pen name Saki and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirise Edwardian society and culture. He is considered to be a master of the short story and is often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy Parker. Influenced by Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll and Rudyard Kipling, Munro himself influenced A. A. Milne, Noël Coward and P. G. Wodehouse.
Jung Chang
Chinese-British author (born 1952)
Charles Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer
British peer and author, brother of Diana, Princess of Wales (born 1964)
Clifford Edmund Bosworth
British historian and orientalist (1928–2015)
Avi Shlaim
Israeli-British historian (born 1945)
Hugh Thomas
British historian (1931-2017)
Paul Preston
British historian
James Tod
1782-1835, English officer of the British East India Company and an Oriental scholar
Thomas Hutchinson
last civilian Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, historian (1711-1780)
Jonathan Spence
British-born historian
Judith Herrin
British archaeologist
Jonathan Clements
British author and scriptwriter (born 1971)
G. E. R. Lloyd
British historian of ancient science (1933-)
Peter Green
British historian and novelist (1924–2024)
Henry Kamen
British historian
Jason Goodwin
British historian (born 1964)
Ian Morris
American historian
Giles Milton
British writer and historian
Jon Halliday
Irish historian (born 1939)
John Clapham
British historian (1873-1946)
Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson
British historian and political activist (1862–1932)
David Christian
American historian
G. R. Hawting
British historian and Islamicist (born 1944)
Paul Strathern
Scottish writer and academic
Anthony Bryer
British historian
Alexander Nadson
Belarusian Apostelic Visitor (1926–2015)
Geoffrey Roberts
British historian
Alison Bashford
Australian historian of world science
Robert C. Allen
economic historian
Richard Miles
British historian and archaeologist (born 1969)
George William Cox
British historian (1827–1902)
David Bates
British historian
Peter Jackson
British historian
Charles Raymond Beazley
British historian (1868–1955)
John Dunn
British historian
Peter Hopkirk
British author (1930–2014)
Peter Watson
art historian
John Man
British historian and travel writer
Victor Louis Ménage
British historian and Turkologist (1920–2015)
James Wycliffe Headlam
British historian (1863–1929)
Ali Ansari
Iranian professor
Christopher J. Walker
British historian (1942–2017)
Susan Reynolds
British historian (1929–2021)
Paul Ginsborg
British historian (1945-2022)
David Armitage
British historian
Julian Thompson
Royal Marines general
Roger Moorhouse
British historian
Robert William Davies
British historian (1925-2021)
Robert I. Frost
British historian
David N. Livingstone
British academic
Barbara Levick
British historian
Keith Jenkins
British historian
Martin Meredith
British historian, journalist and biographer
Peter Marshall
British author, philosopher, historian (born 1946)
Bill Gunston
author
Joanna Bourke
British historian
John Lorimer
Scottish administrator in India
De Lacy O'Leary
British historian (1872–1957)
Alex J. Kay
British historian of National Socialism
Edwin Pears
British historian (1835–1919)