- Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 2004)
- Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College (from 1997 to 2004)
- Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 1992 to 1996)
- Egyptian language and texts, in particular the nature of the Egyptian language and the range and nature of Egyptian written sources and their interpretation from publication of primary sources to analysis and commentary; subjectivity in Ancient Egypt: the expression of personal experience through written sources in Ancient Egypt and the marking of persons in text through linguistic expression
- (with S. Quirke), The UCL Lahun Papyri: Accounts, British Archaeological Reports, 1471 (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2006)
- (with S. Quirke), The UCL Lahun Papyri: Religious, Literary, Legal, Mathematical and Medical, British Archaeological Reports International Series, 1209 (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2004)
- Dating Late XIXth Dynasty Ostraca, Egyptologische Uitgaven, 18 (Leiden: Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, 2004)
- (with S. Quirke), The UCL Lahun Papyri: Letters, British Archaeological Reports International Series, 1083 (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2002)
- (with W. Manley), How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs (London: British Museum Press, 1998)
- Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology (from 2007)
- Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 1997)
- Junior Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 1974 to 1981)
- Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1967 to 1974)
- Undergraduate, Wadham College (from 1964 to 1967)
- Local history; church history; eighteenth and nineteenth Century national and international history; historiography
- Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 1995)
- Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 1986 to 1995)
- Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 2006)
- FOM Springplanker (Research Associate), Instituut voor Theoretische Fysica, Universiteit van Amsterdam (from 2003 to 2007)
- Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College (from 2003 to 2006)
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 1999 to 2002)
- Postdoctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia (from 1998 to 1999)
- Computation of dynamical correlation functions in quantum integrable models: the ABACUS program; Low-dimensional systems: spin chains, atomic gases, quantum wires and carbon nanotubes; Integrable models and the Bethe ansatz; Conformal field theory; Bosonization; Disordered systems
- Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 1965)
- Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1959 to 1965)
- Honorary Fellow, St Antony’s College
- Director and Professor (1967–8), Latin American Centre, University of Oxford and Fellow (to 1968), then Warden, St Antony’s College, Oxford (from 1964 to 1987)
- Fellow, New College, Oxford (from 1953 to 1964)
- Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1946 to 1953)
- Lecturer, University College London (from 1945 to 1946)
- Undergraduate and Postgraduate, Christ Church, Oxford (from 1937 to 1945)
- (ed.) Spain: A History (New York: OUP, 2000)
- Visiones de fin de siglo (Taurus, 1999)
- (ed.) The Chances of Death: a Diary of the Spanish Civil War (Michael Russell, 1995)
- (ed.) The Spanish Civil War: A History in Pictures (Norton, 1986)
- Puerto Rico: A Colonial Experiment (Vintage Books, 1984)
- (with Sara Carr) Fox-Hunting (OUP, 1982)
- Member, National Theatre Board (from 1968 to 1977)
- Chairman, Society for Latin American Studies (from 1966 to 1968)
- Corresponding Member, Royal Academy of History, Madrid
- Award of Merit, Soc. for Spanish Hist. Studies of the US (1987).
- Leimer Award for Spanish Studies, Univ. of Augsburg (1990).
- Prince of Asturias Award in Social Scis, Prince of Asturias Foundn (1999).
- Grand Cross of the Order of Alfonso el Sabio (Spain) (1983).
- Order of Infante Dom Henrique (Portugal) (1989).
- High Court Judge, Queen's Bench Division (from 2018)
- Barrister - 7 King's Bench Walk, London (1986-2018) (Q.C. 2001)
- Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 2007)
- Two-Year Fellow, All Souls College (from 2005 to 2007)
- Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College (from 1991 to 1998)
- Prize Fellow, All Souls College (Junior Dean, 1988-90, and 1992-8) (from 1983 to 1990)
- Undergraduate, Magdalen College, Oxford (from 1980 to 1983)
- Commercial law, especially banking, insurance/reinsurance, professional negligence and shipping and arbitration
- Thomas Talfourd, Romanticism and public life in the early C19
- Chambers & Partners’ Insurance Silk of the Year (2008, 2014).
- Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College (from 2006 to 2019)
- Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy, All Souls College (from 1996 to 2006)
- Fellow in Philosophy, Robinson College, and University Lecturer in Classics (1978-84) and then Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy (1984-96), Cambridge University (from 1978 to 1996)
- Assistant Lecturer, then Lecturer, in Philosophy, University College London (from 1964 to 1978)
- Graduate studies in Philosophy, University College London (from 1963 to 1964)
- Undergraduate, King’s College, Cambridge, studying Classics for Part I of the Tripos, Philosophy for Part II (from 1959 to 1963)
- During National Service in the Royal Navy, qualified as Russian Interpreter (Civil Service Commission, 2nd Class), finishing as Sub-Lieutenant, Royal Naval Reserve (from 1957 to 1959)
- History of ancient and modern philosophy
- Explorations in Ancient and Modern Philosophy, 1976-1996, 2 vols. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012).
- Aristotle’s Divine Intellect (Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 2008).
- A Map of Metaphysics Zeta (Pittsburgh: Mathesis Publications, 2001).
- (co-author with Michael Frede), The Original Sceptics: A Controversy (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1997).
- The Theaetetus of Plato (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1990).
- (ed) The Skeptical Tradition (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983).
- (co-editor), Philosophy As It Is (London: Allen Lane, 1979).
- Honorary Degree in Philosophy, St Andrews University (2012)
- Continuing to serve in the Royal Naval Reserve as Lieutenant (Sp) 1962, Lieutenant-Commander 1970; Retired 1974 (from 1959 to 1974)
- Professor of Classics and History, University of California at Berkeley (from 1978 to 1986)
- Professor of History, Royal Holloway College, University of London (from 1975 to 1978)
- Reader, University of Oxford (from 1973 to 1975)
- Lecturer in Medieval History, Merton College, Oxford (from 1970 to 1975)
- Special Lecturer in Late Roman and Early Byzantine History (from 1970 to 1973)
- Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 1970 to 1975)
- Junior Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 1963 to 1969)
- Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1956 to 1963)
- Undergraduate, New College, Oxford (from 1953 to 1956)
- Rise of Christianity and the transition from the ancient to the early medieval world
- Currently working on the problems of wealth, poverty and the shift from an ancient to a medieval view of society in the late antique and early medieval periods
- Body and Society (New York, 1988: reprint with Introduction 2008)
- The Rise of Western Christendom: 200-1000 A.D. (Oxford 1996; 2nd revd edn, 2003)
- Poverty and Leadership in the Later Roman Empire (Hanover, New Hampshire, 2002)
Augustine of Hippo (London 1967, new edn. With epilogue, 2000)
- Augustine of Hippo (London 1967, new edn. With epilogue, 2000)
- Authority and the Sacred (Cambridge, 1995)
- Power and Persuasion (Madison, Wisc. 1992)
- Religion and Society in the Age of Saint Augustine (London, 1972, 2nd edn., New York, 1989)
- Society and the Holy in Late Antiquity (Berkeley, 1982)
- The Cult of the Saints (Chicago, 1981)
- The Making of Late Antiquity (Harvard, 1978)
- The World of Late Antiquity (London, 1972)
- Link to Publications
- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- History of late antiquity, Byzantium, and the Early Middle Ages, such as ‘Understanding the Dark Ages’ and ‘Saints and Sinners in Early Byzantium’
- Kluge Prize (2008).
- President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching (2006).
- Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College (from 1998 to 2011)
- Bursar, All Souls College (from 1990 to 1998)
- Bursar, St Antony’s College, Oxford (to 1990)
- Treasurer, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
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