John Michael Wallace-Hadrill, (29 September 1916 – 3 November 1985) was a senior academic and one of the foremost historians of the early

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. Wallace-Hadrill was born on 29 September 1916 in Bromsgrove, where his father was a master at

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. He was

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of Mediaeval History at the

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between 1955 and 1961. He then became a

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of Merton College in the

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(where he held the office of Sub-Warden) from 1961 till 1974. He was Chichele Professor of Modern History at

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from 1974 to 1983 and, between 1974 and 1985, a

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. He was elected a Fellow of the

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in 1969 and delivered the

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in 1971. He was a Vice-President of the

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between 1973 and 1976. He was appointed a

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(CBE) in 1982. He is the father of the Roman historian

Andrew Wallace-Hadrill Andrew Frederic Wallace-Hadrill, (born 29 July 1951) is a British ancient historian, classical archaeologist, and academic. He is Professor of Roman Studies and Director of Research in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Cambridge. He ...

and the brother of church historian, D.S. Wallace-Hadrill.Wallace-Hadrill, D.S. (1982). Christian Antioch:a Study of early Christian thought in the East. London: Cambridge University Press. "Forward" p. vii. .

Bibliography

* ''The Barbarian West, 400–1000'' (1952). * '' The Fourth Book of the Chronicle of Fredegar with Its Continuations'' (1960). * ''The Long-haired Kings'' (London, 1962). * ''Early Germanic Kingship in England and the Continent'' (Oxford, 1971). * ''Early Medieval history'' (1976). * ''The Frankish Church'' (1983). * ''Ideal and reality in Frankish and Anglo-Saxon society: studies presented to J.M. Wallace-Hadrill'' (1983). * ''Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People: A Historical Commentary'' (Oxford, 1988).

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