Andrew George Little (28 September 1863 – 22 October 1945) was an English historian, specialising in the

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(known as the Greyfriars) in medieval England. He was Professor of History at the University College of South Wales,

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, between 1898 and 1901 (having previously been the college's first history lecturer there since 1892). He was thereafter a visiting lecturer (1903–20) and then reader (1920–32) in

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at the

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. He was president of the

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from 1926 to 1929, and was elected a

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in 1922.

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, September 2004). Retrieved 17 October 2019.

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For a full bibliography down to 1938, see ''An address presented to Andrew George Little, with a bibliography of his writings'' (1938). His books included: * '' The Grey Friars in Oxford'' (Oxford:

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for the

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, 1892). * '' Mediaeval Wales, Chiefly in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries'' (London:

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, 1902). * '' Initia Operum Latinorum quae Saeculis XIII., XIV., XV. Attribuuntur'' (Manchester:

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, 1904). * Edition of

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, '' Tractatus de adventu Fratrum Minorum in Angliam'' (Manchester:

, 1909). * '' Studies in English Franciscan History'' (Manchester:

, 1917) – based on the

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he gave at the

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in 1916 * (Edited based on material by Paul Sabatier) ''Speculum Perfectionis'', 2 vols. (Manchester: British Society for Franciscan Studies, 1928–31). * (Co-authored with Father Franz Pelster) ''Oxford Theology and Theologians, c. a.d. 1282–1302'' (Oxford: Clarendon Press for the Oxford Historical Society, 1934)

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