Regius Professors of Modern History
- Samuel Harris 1724
- Shallet Turner 1735
- Lawrence Brockett 1762
- Thomas Gray 1768
- John Symonds 1771
- William Smyth 1807
- Sir James Stephen 1849
- Charles Kingsley 1860
- John Seeley 1869
- John Dalberg, Baron Acton of Aldenham 1895
- John Bagnell Bury 1902
- George Macaulay Trevelyan 1927
- George Norman Clark 1943
- James Ramsay Montagu Butler 1947
- David Knowles 1954
- Herbert Butterfield 1963
- William Owen Chadwick 1968
- Geoffrey Elton 1983
- Patrick Collinson 1988
- Quentin Skinner 1996
- Sir Richard J. Evans 2008
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