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H. G. Wells
English writer (1866–1946)

Robert Conquest
British historian and poet
William Hague
British politician (born 1961)
Norman Davies
British historian

E. P. Thompson
British historian & peace activist (1924-1993)

John Nettles
British actor and writer
Orlando Figes
Canadian Lawyer
Quentin Skinner
British historian (1940-)
Moses I. Finley
American-born British academic and classical scholar (1912–1986)

Martin Gilbert
English historian (1936-2015)
George Grote
English historian and political radical (1794–1871)
Michael Wood
English historian and broadcaster (born 1948)
E. T. Whittaker
British mathematician (1873-1956)
Lisa Jardine
British historian (1944-2015)
Ivor Grattan-Guinness
Historian of mathematics and logic (1941-2014)
Jonathan Riley-Smith
British historian
Ian Bostridge
English tenor
Harold Murray
British chess historian (1868–1955)
David Starkey
British constitutional historian
Kevin Brownlow
English filmmaker and film historian
John Nott
British politician (1932–2024)
Paul Cartledge
British ancient Greece historian (born 1947)
John Elliott
British historian (1930–2022)
Peter Berresford Ellis
English historian, biographer, and novelist (born 1943)

G. R. S. Mead
English author, editor, translator, and theosophist (1863–1933)

Basil Davidson
British journalist and historian (1914–2010)
Andrew Dalby
British academic
Noel Malcolm
British historian and journalist (born 1956)
Ronald Hutton
British historian and author
Felipe Fernández-Armesto
British historian

Arthur Llewellyn Basham
British historian and Indologist (1914-1986)
Michael Loewe
British sinologist and historian (1922–2025)
Owen Chadwick
English academic, priest and rugby union player (1916-2015)
Catherine Hall
British feminist historian
Frances Wood
English historian and sinologist
Averil Cameron
English historian of late antiquity (born 1940)
Roger Collins
English medievalist (born 1949)
Norman Cohn
British historian (1915–2007)

Asa Briggs
English historian (1921-2016)

George Peabody Gooch
British politician (1873-1968)
Adam Hart-Davis
British scientist, author, photographer, historian and broadcaster
Charles Nicholl
British historian and writer
Emma Georgina Rothschild
English historian
Suzannah Lipscomb
British historian and television presenter
David Cesarani
British historian (1956–2015)
Edwyn Bevan
British philosopher and historian (1870–1943)
John Beames
British historian, linguist

Rosemary Hill
British historian
Harold Temperley
British historian
Thomas Birch
English historian (1705-1766)
Denis Mack Smith
British historian (1920–2017)
Jim Bradbury
British military historian (1937–2023)

Simon Hornblower
English historian of ancient Greece (born 1949)
Sebastian Balfour
British historian
Alex Woolf
British historian
Harold Evans
American journalist (1928–2020)

Peter Hennessy
English historian and prize-winning author (born 1947)
Robert Bartlett
British historian

Richard Talbert
British-American historian and classicist (born 1947)
Nicholas Brooks
British medieval historian and archaeologist