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Historians from United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

48 published records, arranged alphabetically. Each entry is published only where a named source supports it.

Agnes StricklandAuthor · BooksAgnes Strickland (18 July 1796 – 8 July 1874) was an English historical writer and poet. She is particularly remembered for her Lives of the Queens of England (12 vols, 1840–1848).
Alexander HislopAuthor · BooksIllustration — Portrait of Alexander Hislop
Alexander William KinglakeAuthor · BooksAlexander William Kinglake (5 August 1809 – 2 January 1891) was an English orientalist travel writer and historian.
Alice Margaret CoatsEngraver · PrintsAlice Margaret Coats (15 June 1905 – 19 May 1978, in Bath) was a British watercolour painter, engraver, woodcut artist, and author.
Alice Stopford GreenAuthor · Books
Andrew MangoAuthor · BooksAndrew James Alexander Mango (14 June 1926 – 6 July 2014) was a British BBC employee and author.
Archibald GeikieAuthor · Maps and atlasesSir Archibald Geikie (28 December 1835 – 10 November 1924) was a Scottish geologist and writer.
Austen Henry LayardArtist · PaintingsSir Austen Henry Layard (5 March 18175 July 1894) was a British Assyriologist, traveller, cuneiformist, art historian, draughtsman, collector, politician and diplomat.
Edward Augustus FreemanAuthor · BooksEdward Augustus Freeman (2 August 182316 March 1892) was an English historian, architectural artist, and Liberal politician, a one-time candidate for Parliament.
Ernest Belfort BaxAuthor · BooksErnest Belfort Bax (23 July 1854 – 26 November 1926) was an English barrister, journalist, philosopher, men's rights advocate, socialist, and historian.
F. W. L. ThomasPhotographer · PhotographyIllustration — Chart of East Loch Tarbert, Isle of Harris, surveyed by Thomas in 1857
Fred T. JaneIllustrator · IllustrationJohn Fredrick Thomas Jane (6 August 1865 – 8 March 1916) was an English author, artist, war gamer, and founding editor of All the World's Fighting Ships and All the World's Airships.
Frederick RolfePhotographer · PhotographyFrederick William Rolfe (surname pronounced), better known as Baron Corvo (Italian for "Crow"), and also calling himself Frederick William Serafino Austin Lewis Mary Rolfe (22 July 1860 –…
G. M. TrevelyanAuthor · BooksGeorge Macaulay Trevelyan (16 February 1876 – 21 July 1962) was an English historian and academic. He was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1898 to 1903.
Geoffrey EltonAuthor · BooksSir Geoffrey Rudolph Elton (born Gottfried Rudolf Otto Ehrenberg; 17 August 1921 – 4 December 1994) was a German-born British political and constitutional historian, specialising in the…
George GroteAuthor · BooksGeorge Grote (17 November 1794 – 18 June 1871) was an English political radical and classical historian. He is now best known for his major work, the voluminous History of Greece.
Gerald BrenanAuthor · BooksEdward FitzGerald Brenan, CBE, MC (7 April 1894 – 19 January 1987) was a British writer and hispanist who spent much of his life in Spain.
Grace AguilarAuthor · BooksGrace Aguilar (2 June 1816 – 16 September 1847) was an English novelist, poet and writer on Jewish history and religion.
H. G. WellsAuthor · BooksHerbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer, prolific in many genres. He wrote more than forty novels and dozens of short stories.
Harold ActonAuthor · BooksSir Harold Mario Mitchell Acton (5 July 1904 – 27 February 1994) was a British writer, scholar, and aesthete who was a prominent member of the Bright Young Things.
Harriet MartineauAuthor · BooksHarriet Martineau (12 June 1802 – 27 June 1876) was an English social theorist.[2] She wrote from a sociological, holistic, religious and feminine angle, translated works by Auguste Comte,…
Hilaire BellocAuthor · BooksJoseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc (27 July 187016 July 1953) was a French-English writer and political activist.
James MackintoshAuthor · BooksSir James Mackintosh FRS FRSE (24 October 1765 – 30 May 1832) was a Scottish jurist, Whig politician and Whig historian. His studies and sympathies embraced many interests.
James RennellAuthor · Maps and atlasesMajor James Rennell (3 December 1742 – 29 March 1830) was an English geographer, historian and a pioneer of oceanography.
John BarrowAuthor · BooksSir John Barrow, 1st Baronet (19 June 1764 – 23 November 1848) was an English geographer, linguist, writer and civil servant.
John CrawfurdAuthor · BooksJohn Crawfurd (13 August 1783 – 11 May 1868) was a Scottish physician, British colonial administrator, diplomat and writer who served as the second and last resident of Singapore.
John PinkertonAuthor · Maps and atlasesIllustration — John Pinkerton
Julian CorbettAuthor · BooksIllustration — Sir Julian Stafford Corbett
Justin Huntly McCarthyAuthor · BooksJustin Huntly McCarthy (1859 – 20 March 1936) was an Irish writer, historian, and nationalist politician.
Karl MarxAuthor · BooksKarl Marx (lang; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, social and political theorist, and revolutionary socialist.
Lewis SpenceAuthor · BooksJames Lewis Thomas Chalmers Spence (25 November 1874 – 3 March 1955) was a Scottish journalist, poet, author, folklorist and occult scholar.
Margaret OliphantAuthor · BooksMargaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant (born Margaret Oliphant Wilson; 4 April 1828 – 20 June 1897) was a Scottish novelist and historical writer, who usually wrote as Mrs.
Richard Percival ListerAuthor · BooksRichard Percival Lister FRSL (23 November 1914 – 1 May 2014) was an English author, poet, artist and metallurgist.
Richard Watson DixonAuthor · BooksRichard Watson Dixon (5 May 1833 – 23 January 1900), English poet and divine, son of Dr James Dixon, a Wesleyan minister.
Robert KerrAuthor · Books
Robert SoutheyAuthor · BooksRobert Southey (12 August 1774 – 21 March 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, and Poet Laureate from 1813 until his death.
Saunders LewisAuthor · BooksSaunders Lewis (born John Saunders Lewis; 15 October 1893 – 1 September 1985) was a Welsh politician, poet, dramatist, Medievalist, and literary critic.
Sharon TurnerAuthor · BooksSharon Turner (24 September 1768 – 13 February 1847) was an English historian.
Sir George Trevelyan, 2nd BaronetAuthor · BooksSir George Otto Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet, (20 July 1838 – 17 August 1928) was a British statesman and author.
Thomas ArnoldAuthor · BooksThomas Arnold (13 June 1795 – 12 June 1842) was an English educator and historian. He was an early supporter of the Broad Church Anglican movement.
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron MacaulayAuthor · BooksThomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (25 October 1800 – 28 December 1859) was a British historian, poet and Whig politician who served as the Secretary at War between 1839 and…
Thomas FullerAuthor · BooksThomas Fuller (baptised 19 June 1608; died 16 August 1661) was an English churchman and historian. He was a
Thomas HodgkinAuthor · BooksThomas Hodgkin, FBA (29 July 18312 March 1913) was a British historian, biographer, banker, and Quaker minister.
William CobbettAuthor · BooksWilliam Cobbett (9 March 1763 – 18 June 1835) was an English pamphleteer, journalist, politician, and farmer born in Farnham, Surrey.
William Mitchell RamsayAuthor · BooksWilliam Ramsay (disambiguation)
William MuirAuthor · BooksSir William Muir KCSI (27 April 1819 – 11 July 1905) was a Scottish Orientalist and colonial administrator.
William WhewellAuthor · BooksWilliam Whewell (24 May 17946 March 1866) was an English polymath. He was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.
William Winwood ReadeAuthor · BooksIllustration — Photo of William Winwood Reade published during 1910.

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