- Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 2006)
- Warden, Rhodes House (from 2004 to 2009)
- Two-Year Fellow, All Souls College (from 2004 to 2006)
- University Officer Fellow, All Souls College (from 2001 to 2004)
- Vice Chancellor, University of Oxford (from 1997 to 2004)
- Master, Balliol College, Oxford (from 1994 to 2001)
- Professor (1990–4) and Dean, Division of Social Sciences (1993–4), Chicago University (from 1990 to 1994)
- Lecturer in Modern History, University of Oxford and Fellow, Balliol College (from 1973 to 1990)
- Lecturer, Manchester University (from 1970 to 1973)
- Assistant Lecturer, then Lecturer, Sheffield University (from 1965 to 1969)
- Undergraduate and Postgraduate, Lincoln College, Oxford (from 1959 to 1965)
- (ed.) The French Revolution and the Creation of Modern Political Culture: The Political Culture of the French Revolution vol. 2 (Pergamon Press, 1988)
- (with G. Lewis) Beyond the Terror: Essays in French Regional and Social History, 1794-1815 (Cambridge: CUP, 1983)
- The Structure of Terror: The Example of Javogues and the Loire (OUP, 1973)
- Member, Hong Kong UGC (from 2003)
- Trustee, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (from 2000)