Anthony Bedford Steel (24 February 1900 – 3 October 1973) was a British historian, specialising in

medieval England England in the Middle Ages concerns the history of England during the medieval period, from the end of the 5th century through to the start of the Early Modern period in 1485. When England emerged from the collapse of the Roman Empire, the econ ...

. He was a fellow of Christ's College,

Cambridge Cambridge ( ) is a university city and the county town in Cambridgeshire, England. It is located on the River Cam approximately north of London. As of the 2021 United Kingdom census, the population of Cambridge was 145,700. Cambridge bec ...

, and principal of

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from 1949 to 1966. Among his publications were a monograph on the reign of

Richard II Richard II (6 January 1367 – ), also known as Richard of Bordeaux, was King of England from 1377 until he was deposed in 1399. He was the son of Edward the Black Prince, Prince of Wales, and Joan, Countess of Kent. Richard's father died ...

, as well as a biography of the 19th-century writer

Robert Smith Surtees Robert Smith Surtees (17 May 180516 March 1864) was an English editor, novelist and sporting writer, widely known as R. S. Surtees. He was the second son of Anthony Surtees of Hamsterley Hall, a member of an old County Durham family. He is rem ...

, titled ''Jorrick's England''. He also translated

Albert Sorel Albert Sorel (13 August 184229 June 1906) was a French historian. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature nine times. Life He was born at Honfleur and remained throughout his life a lover of his native Normandy. His father, a rich man ...

's ''L'Europe et la Revolution Francaise'' into English (as ''Europe and the French Revolution'').

Publications

*''Jorrocks's England: On the Works of Robert Smith Surtees'' (London: Methuen & Co., 1932). *''Richard II'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1941). *''The Custom of the Room; or, Early Wine-Books of Christ's College, Cambridge'' (Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons 1951). *''The Receipt of the Exchequer, 1377–1485'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1954).

References

1900 births 1973 deaths 20th-century biographers 20th-century British historians Academics of Cardiff University British biographers British male non-fiction writers British medievalists Commanders of the Order of St John Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Fellows of Christ's College, Cambridge Historians of England Male biographers {{UCambridge-stub