- Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 1994)
- Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 1981 to 1994)
- Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 1981)
- Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College (from 1980 to 1981)
- Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1972 to 1979)
- Undergraduate, Balliol College, Oxford (from 1967 to 1971)
- Classical reception, especially in the nineteenth century
- Latin poetry
- Roman cultural history
- Classical Literature (London: Penguin, 2015 / New York: Basic Books, 2016)
- God, Space and City in the Roman Imagination (Oxford: OUP, 2013)
- A Fine Brush on Ivory: an appreciation of Jane Austen (Oxford: OUP, 2004)
- Westminster Abbey (Profile Books Ltd, 2004)
- Virgil’s Experience: Nature and History; Times, Names and Places (Oxford: OUP, 1998)
- (ed.) The Legacy of Rome: A New Appraisal (Oxford: OUP, 1992)
- Classical Epic: Homer and Virgil (Bristol Classical Press [now Bloomsbury], 1992)
- Dignity and Decadence: Victorian Art and the Classical Inheritance (Harper Collins, 1991)
- Three Classical Poets: Sappho, Catullus and Juvenal (Duckworth, 1982)
- Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship 2007-10.
- Political, local and parliamentary, career, including MP for Wantage (1983–2005); Office of Public Service and Science (1992–3); Department of Employment (1990–2); Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, DES (1987–90); Special Adviser to Governor of Rhodesia (1979–80); Chef de Cabinet, President of EEC Economic and Social Committeee (1976–8); Member, Cabinet of Sir Christopher Soames, EEC Commission (1974–6); Political advisor to Secretary of State for Employment (1973–4) and Councillor, Oxford County Council (1969–71) (from 1969 to 2005)
- Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 1986)
- Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College (from 1979 to 1986)
- Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1968 to 1975)
- Undergraduate, St Edmund Hall, Oxford (from 1965 to 1968)
- Political Ideas in Western Europe Today (1984)
- From Boom to Bust?: British farming and CAP reform (Conservative Political Centre, 1983)
- Tradition and Reality: Conservative Philosophy and European Integration (European Democratic Group, Conservative Central Office, 1982)
- Reforming the European Budget (Conservative Political Centre, 1981)
- The European Parliament: Penguin Guide to Direct Elections (Penguin, 1979)
- The Powers of the European Parliament (The Conservative Group for Europe, 1977)
- South Asian Crisis: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh (Praeger, 1972, 1975)
- Member, Advisory Committee on Works of Art, House of Commons
- Treasurer, Conservative Mainstream Parliamentary Group
- Co-Chairman, CAABU (2001–)
- Member, UK Delegation, Council of Europe and WEU (2000–1)
- Member, Select Committee on Science and Technology (1999–2001)
- Trustee, Hattori Foundation, Hattori Trust Co. Ltd.
- International Affairs (Chatham House) (1979–80)
- Editor, The Round Table, Commonwealth Journal of International Relations (1970–4)
- Honorary Fellow, All Souls College (from 2014 to 2019)
- Honorary Fellow, Oriel College (from 1990 to 2019)
- Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History, Yale University (from 1989 to 1993)
- Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 1980 to 2014)
- Regius Professor of Modern History and Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford (from 1980 to 1989)
- Chichele Professor of History of War (from 1977) and Fellow, All Souls College (from 1968 to 1980)
- Assistant Lecturer in History (1947), Lecturer (1950–3), Lecturer then Reader in War Studies (1953–63) and finally Professor of War Studies, King’s College London (from 1947 to 1963)
- Undergraduate, Christ Church, Oxford (from 1943 to 1946)
- History of war and international relations, primarily in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
- Fellow of King's College London (FKC), President and co-Founder, International Institute for Strategic Studies
- Vice-President, Council on Christian Approaches to Defence and Disarmament
- President, Army Records Society Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- NATO Atlantic Award (1989).
- Chesney Memorial Gold Medal, RUSI (1973).
- Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College (from 1983 to 2009)
- Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 1973 to 1983)
- University Lecturer, then Professor of Chinese, University of Oxford (from 1959 to 1971)
- Research Student, National Peking University (from 1948 to 1951)
- Chinese Hons Scholar, University of Oxford (from 1945 to 1947)
- Undergraduate, Christ Church (from 1941 to 1943)
- Liu Yi and the Dragon Princess: a thirteenth-century Zaju play by Shang Zhongxian (2003)
- J. Minford and Siu-kit Wong (eds), Classical, Modern and Humane: essays in Chinese Literature (1989)
- The Story of the Stone, vol. 1 (1973), vol. 2 (1977), vol. 3 (1980)
- A Little Primer of Tu Fu (1967, repr. 1987)
- Ch’u Tz’ŭ, Songs of the South (1959, rev. edn as The Songs of the South: an Ancient Chinese Anthology of Poems by Qu Yuan and Other Poets, 1985)
- Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 1988)
- Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College (from 1981 to 1988)
- Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1973 to 1980)
- Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 1992)
- Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1985 to 1992)
- Undergraduate and Postgraduate, Trinity College, Oxford (from 1978 to 1985)
- Philosophy of Religion
- Cosmology
- History of early modern Philosophy
- ‘Mere addition and the best of all possible worlds’, Religious Studies
- ‘Cosmological fecundity’, Inquiry
- ‘Incommensurability and the best of all possible worlds’, The Monist
- ‘West or best? Sufficient reason in the Leibniz-Clarke correspondence’, Studia Leibnitiana
- ‘Satisfied pigs and dissatisfied philosophers: Schlesinger on the problem of evil’, Philosophical Investigations
- Problems of Evil (Fall 2008)
- The Best of All Possible Worlds (Fall 2007)
- The Design Argument (Spring 2006)
- The Problem of Evil (Spring 2005)
- Nothing (Spring 2004)
- Chief Strategist and Political Analyst, UFG Russia Select Fund (now owned by Deutsche Bank) (from 2000 to 2006)
- Diplomat, Political Section, British Embassy, Moscow, Russia (from 1995 to 1999)
- Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 1991)
- Foreign Service, Foreign & Commonwealth Office (from 1990 to 1995)
- Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1984 to 1991)
- Undergraduate, New College (from 1981 to 1984)
- Russian and other former Soviet financial markets
- (with Oppenheimer, eds), Russia's Post-Communist Economy (OUP, 2001)
- Professor of Law and Philosophy, University of Oxford, and Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 2016 to 2019)
- Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Oxford (from 2000 to 2016)
- Reader in Legal Philosophy, King’s College London (from 1996 to 2000)
- Fellow and Tutor in Law, Brasenose College, Oxford (from 1991 to 1996)
- Prize Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford (from 1986 to 1991)
- The philosophy of private law, of criminal law, of public law, and of law in general, as well as nearby areas of moral philosophy, political philosophy, philosophical psychology, and the philosophy of action.
- Law as a Leap of Faith: Essays on Law in General (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2012)
- Offences and Defences: Selected Essays in the Philosophy of Criminal Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2007)
- Publications (External Link)
- Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College (from 1983 to 2015)
- Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire and Fellow, All Souls College (from 1966 to 1983)
- Reader (1955-63) then Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Provinces, Institute of Archaeology, University of London (from 1955 to 1966)
- Lecturer in Archaeology, Manchester University (from 1954 to 1955)
- Master, Lancing College (from 1945 to 1954)
- National Fire Service (from 1940 to 1945)
- Master, Epsom College (from 1938 to 1940)
- Undergraduate, Magdalene College, Cambridge (to 1938)
- (with J. J. Wilkes) Strageath: excavations within the Roman fort (Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, 1989)
- (with F. A. Lepper) Trajan’s Column (Alan Sutton, 1988)
- Verulamium Excavations, vol. I (1972), vol. II (Society of Antiquaries of London, 1983), vol. III (Oxford University Committee for Archaeology, 1984)
- Excavations at Canterbury, vol. VII (Kent Archaeological Society, 1982)
- (with J. K. St Joseph) Roman Britain from the Air (CUP, 1983)
- Excavations on the Roman and Medieval Defences of Canterbury (Kent Archaeological Society, 1982)
- Britannia, a history of Roman Britain (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1967; 4th edn, The Folio Society, 1999)
- (ed.) Problems of the Iron Age in Southern Britain (University of London, Institute of Archaeology, 1961)
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