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Peter Hamish Wilson, FRHistS (born November 27, 1963) is a British historian. Since 2015, he has held the Chichele Professor of the History of War chair at All Souls College , University of Oxford .
All Souls College [7] (official name: The College of All Souls of the Faithful Departed, of Oxford [1]) is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Unique to All Souls, all of its members automatically become fellows (i.e., full members of the college's governing body).
Peter Wilson was born in Weston-super-Mare. [1] While studying at St Edmund Hall at the University of Oxford, [3] Wilson played two first-class cricket matches for Oxford University in 1964, [4] [5] against Hampshire and Derbyshire at Oxford. [6] He scored 56 runs in his two matches, with a high score of 30. [7]
Indian Institute building seen from the north-west. The Indian Institute was an institute within the University of Oxford.It was started by Sir Monier Monier-Williams in 1883 to provide training for the Indian Civil Service of the British Raj.
The Faculty of History at the University of Oxford organises that institution's teaching and research in medieval and modern history. Medieval and modern history has been taught at Oxford for longer than at virtually any other university, [1] and the first Regius Professor of Modern History was appointed in 1724.
In 1832 Oxford University selected Wilson to be the first occupant of the newly founded Boden chair of Sanskrit: [2] he had placed a column length advertisement in The Times on 6 March 1832 p. 3, giving a list of his achievements and intended activities, along with testimonials, including one from a rival candidate, as to his suitability for ...
In an exclusive interview with The Independent, Lord Hague discusses with Geordie Greig his campaign to win election as Chancellor to the University of Oxford. The former foreign secretary ...
This is a list of University of Oxford people in British public life. Many were students at one (or more) of the colleges of the University, and others held fellowships at a college. This list forms part of a series of lists of people associated with the University of Oxford – for other lists, please see the main article List of University of ...