category: ACADEMIA, HUMANITIES

Life stories are listed in order of date of birth.

Furnivall, Frederick. Born 1825. (11 pages). An extremely energetic Victorian.
Carus-Wilson, Eleanora. Born 1897. (19 pages). Professor of Economic History.
Walbank, Frank William. Born 1909. (205 pages). Professor of Ancient History.
Steiner, George. Born 1929. (29 pages). Professor of Comparative Literature.
Kerr, Malcolm. Born 1931. (10 pages). President, American University of Beirut.
Beer, Gillian. Born 1935. (17 pages). Professor of English Literature.
Minkin, Lewis. Born 1936. (36 pages). Historian of the Labour Party.
Brendon, Piers. Born 1940. (42 pages). Historian.
Glover, Jonathan. Born 1941. (222 pages). Professor of Philosophy.
Andrew, Christopher. Born 1941. (51 pages). Historian of the secret services.
Macfarlane, Alan. Born 1941. (3074 pages). Anthropologist and historian.
Humphrey, Caroline. Born 1943. (19 pages). Anthropologist.
Jardine, Lisa. Born 1944. (16 pages). Historian.
Frayling, Christopher. Born 1946. (33 pages). Professor Cultural History.
Ford, David. Born 1948. (22 pages). Regius Professor of Divinity, Cambridge.
Schaffer, Simon. Born 1955. (28 pages). Historian of Science.
Fleming, Chris. (8 pages). Professor in Humanities.
Van de Ven, Hans. Born 1958. (18 pages). Professor of Modern Chinese History.
Arday, Jason. Born 1985. (11 pages). Professor of Sociology of Education.

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