- Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow, Oriental Institute, University of Oxford (from 2002 to 2004)
- Camden Professor of Ancient History, University of Oxford and Fellow, Brasenose College, Oxford (from 1984 to 2002)
- Professor of Ancient History, University College London (from 1976 to 1984)
- Fellow, The Queen’s College, Oxford (from 1964 to 1976)
- Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 1964 to 2019)
- Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1958 to 1964)
- Undergraduate, Trinity College, Oxford (from 1955 to 1958)
- Ancient History; Late Roman Near East; Jewish History
- A Greek Roman Empire: Power and Belief under Theodosius II (408–450) (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2006)
- Rome, the Greek World and the East, 3 vols (University of North Carolina Press, 2002, 2004, 2006)
- The Roman Republic in Political Thought (Brandeis University Press, 2002)
- The Crowd in Rome in the Late Republic (University of Michigan Press, 1998)
- The Roman Near East (Harvard University Press, 1993)
- (ed with E. Segal) Caesar Augustus: Seven Aspects (Clarendon Press, 1984)
- Member, Hebrew and Jewish Studies Unit, Oriental Institute;
Sather Professor of Classical Literature, University of California at Berkeley (2003)
- Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2003)
- Corresponding Member, Russian Academy (1999)
- Publication Secretary, British Academy (1997–2002)
- Corresponding Member, Finnish Academy (Foreign Honorary, 1989)
- Corresponding Member, Bavarian Academy (1987)
- Corresponding Member, German Archaeological Institute (1978)
- Vice-President (1977–89, 1992–2001), Hon. Vice President (2001) and President (1989–92) Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies
- Research Grant, British Academy, 2007–9.
- Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 2001)
- Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 1996 to 2001)
- Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College (from 1997 to 2023)
- President, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto (from 1996 to 2008)
- Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 1990 to 1997)
- President and Vice-Chancellor, University of St Michael’s College, Toronto [now Emeritus] (from 1984 to 1990)
- Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 1980 to 1984)
- Junior Fellow (Professor extraordinarius) then Senior Fellow (Professor ordinaries), Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto (from 1967 to 1991)
- Part-time instructor, Division of Humanities, York University, Toronto (from 1963 to 1964)
- Instructor in History, then Assistant Professor, University of Saskatchewan (from 1956 to 1962)
- Erasmus
- Intellectual history
- Historical theology
- English Humanists and Reformation Politics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1965).
- 'Erasmus and the Grammar of Consent', in Joseph Coppens (ed.) Scrinium Erasmianum (Leiden: Brill, 1969).
- 'The Prosopography of Tudor Oxford', Journal of Interdisciplinary History (1973).
- 'Erasmus and the "Julius": a Humanist Reflects on the Church', in Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought X (Leiden, 1974).
- 'Scholars and Commoners in Renaissance Oxford', in Lawrence Stone (ed.) The University in Society (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1974).
- The Correspondence of Erasmus - Letters 298 to 593: 1514 to 1517, translated by R.A.B. Mynors and D.F.S. Thomson, annotated by James K. McConica (Toronto; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1976 and 1977).
- Volumes 3 and 4 of Collected Works of Erasmus (Toronto: University of Toronto Press).
- Thomas More: A Short Biography (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1977).
- 'Humanism and Aristotle in Tudor Oxford', English Historical Review 94 (1979).
- The Collegiate University, volume 3 of The History of the University of Oxford (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986).
- Erasmus (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991).
- 'The Early Fellowship' and 'Warden Hovenden' in Unarmed Soldiery, Studies in the Early History of All Souls College Oxford. The Chichele Lectures 1993-1994. (Oxford: All Souls College, 1996).
- ‘Edgar Winds Oxforder Jahre’ in Horst Bredekamp et al., Edgar Wind, Kunsthtoriker und Philosoph (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1998).
- ‘L’enseignement humaniste à Oxford et à Cambridge et l’influence d’Erasme en Angleterre’, in André Tuilier (ed.) Histoire du Collège de France (Paris: Fayard, 2006).
- 'The Englishing of P. S. Allen' in Erasmus and the Renaissance Republic of Letters ed. Stephen Ryle (Turnhout: Brepols, 2014).
- Publications (External Link)
- Honorary Fellow, Exeter College, Oxford
- Member, International Commission on English in the Liturgy (from 2002)
- Member (Vice-President, 1998–), International Council directing the Opera omnia of Erasmus of Rotterdam (ASD) under the auspices of the International Union of Academies and the Royal Dutch Academy (from 1983)
- Chairman, Editorial Board, Collected Works of Erasmus, Toronto (from 1975)
- Member, Board of Trustees, University of Toronto Art Centre (from 2003 to 2005)
- Chair, Medieval Studies Foundation, Toronto (from 1996 to 2008)
- Director, Canadian Rhodes Scholars’ Foundation (from 1997 to 2008)
- Visiting Fellow, All Souls College (1969–71 and 1977)
- Foreign Member, Royal Belgian Academy
- Honorary Fellow, Huntingdon Library (1976)
- Corresponding Member, British Academy
- Corresponding Member, Royal Belgian Academy
- Officer of the Order of Canada
- Lifetime Achievement Award (2006).
- Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 1999)
- Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1992 to 1999)
- Undergraduate, Brasenose College (from 1988 to 1992)
- Tort
- Criminal
- Contract
- Equity
- Aspects of Obligations Research Interests: Tort Law, the Law of Obligations generally
- (with Rod Bagshaw) Tort Law (3rd edn, Pearson Education, 2008)
- Letters to a Law Student (Pearson Education, 2007)
- Professor of Political Economy, University of Cambridge (from 1980 to 1991)
- Master, Clare College, Cambridge (from 1975 to 1993)
- Drummond Professor of Political Economy and Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford (from 1965 to 1975)
- Mostly Three-Movers: Collected Chess Problems (Feenschach-Phénix, 1995)
- (ed.) Economy and Democracy (Macmillan, 1985)
- (ed. with J. R. Sargent) Contemporary Problems of Economic Policy: Essays from the CLARE Group (Methuen, 1983)
- (with C. H. Feinstein and J. C. Odling-Smee) British Economic Growth 1856–1973 (New York: OUP, 1982)
- (ed. with G. B. Stafford) The Grants Economy and Collective Consumption (Macmillan, 1982)
- (ed.) Slower Growth in the Western World (Heinemann, 1982)
- Hon. Member, American Economic Association (1993)
- Foreign Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1985)
- President Royal Society (from 1984 to 1986)
- Managing Trustee, Nuffield Foundation (from 1975 to 1996)
- Trustee, Urwick Orr and Partners Ltd (from 1978 to 1986)
- Chairman, Bank of England Panel of Academic Consultants (from 1977 to 1993)
- Member, OECD Expert Group on on Non-inflationary Growth (from 1975 to 1977)
- FIDE International Master of Chess Composition (1965)
- Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College (from 1987 to 2016)
- Master, Downing College, Cambridge (from 1987 to 1995)
- Chichele Professor of Economic History and Fellow, All Souls College (from 1969 to 1987)
- Assistant Lecturer then Lecturer Faculty of History and Director of Studies in History and Fellow, Queens' College, Cambridge (from 1955 to 1968)
- Research Fellow, Jesus College, Cambridge (from 1952 to 1955)
- Why the West Won? (Naples, 2010).
- Convivere con i vicini (Rome: Luisse, 2008).
- L'idea di Europa (Naples: La Scuola Di Pitagora, 2009).
- (ed.), History of Mankind, vol. VI (Paris: UNESCO, 2008).
- Cinque Lezioni di teoria e storia dello sviluppo economico (Naples, 2009).
- L'Economia Britannica dal 1815 al 1914 (Milan: Einaudi, 1994).
- The Transformation of England (London: Methuen, 1979).
- The First Industrial Nation (London: Methuen, 1967; 1983).
- Retailing Revolution - a History of Multiple Retailing in the Food Trades (London: Longman, 1967).
- Engish Trade Tokens (London: Abelard Schuman, 1962).
- The Brewing Industry in England 1700-1830 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1959).
- Trustee and Member Council, GB Saskawa Foundation (Chairman, 1997-2005; President, 2006-) (1994-)
- International Institute of Economic History Francesco Datini, Prato (Member, Executive Committee, 1972-99; Comitato d'Honore, 1999-)
- Member, Academia Europaea (1989)
- Honorary President, International Economic History Association (1978-)
- Order of the Rising Sun with Gold Rays (from 2003).
- Two Year Fellow, All Souls College (from 2023 to 2025)
- Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 2006 to 2023)
- Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1999 to 2006)
- Postgraduate, Wadham College, Oxford (from 1998 to 1999)
- Undergraduate, Queens’ College, Cambridge (from 1995 to 1998)
- Public international law
- International arbitration
- Human rights law
- International and financial crime
- Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 1999)
- Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Princeton University (from 1997 to 2001)
- Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1992 to 1999)
- Undergraduate, Oriel College, Oxford (from 1989 to 1992)
- Greek history, with special liking for the Hellenistic period, the polis, epigraphy, Asia Minor and Greek sculpture
- (ed., with N. Papazarkadas and R. Parker), Interpreting the Athenian Empire (Duckworth, 2009)
- 'Chaironeia 338: Topographies of Memory', JHS 128 (2008), 72-91
- 'The Many Lives of Eugnotos of Akraiphia', Studi Ellenistici 16 (2005), 141-91
- Antiochos III and the Cities of Western Asia Minor (OUP, 1999; rev. ed. New York: OUP, 2002, rev. French tr. 2004)
- 'Peel Polity Interaction in the Hellenistic World', Past & Present 180 (2003), 9-40
- 'Black Hunter Variations', PCPS 40 (1994), 49-80
- Professor of European History, University of Pisa (from 1990 to 2000)
- Resident Professor of History, The Bologna Center (from 1979 to 1990)
- Professor of Modern History, University of Reading (from 1976 to 1979)
- Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 1968)
- Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 1967 to 1968)
- Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford (from 1968 to 1975)
- Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1960 to 1967)
- Undergraduate, Magdalen College, Oxford (from 1956 to 1959)
- Associate, Center for European Studies, Harvard University (1987)
- Member of Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (from 1985 to 1986)
- Academic Director of Research Institute, Bologna Center (from 1980 to 1985)
- Acting Director, European program, SAIS–Washington (Spring 1983)
- Problems in modern European History and Historiography
- Founding Director, Poverty Research Unit, University of Sussex (from 1994 to 1997)
- Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 1984 to 2023)
- Two-Year Fellow, All Souls College (from 1982 to 1984)
- Fellow, Institute of Development Studies and Professorial Fellow, University of Sussex (from 1970 to 1994)
- Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1961 to 1968)
- Undergraduate, Balliol College, Oxford (from 1957 to 1960)
- Economics, especially in agricultural research
- Land reform
- Poverty and inequality
- Nutrition
- Economic demography in developing countries, including Bangladesh, Botswana, India, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka and South Africa
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