One of the statutory Chichele Professorships established at All Souls College, Oxford

All Souls College, Oxford

The Warden and the College of the Souls of all Faithful People deceased in the University of Oxford or All Souls College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England....

, this chair was originally established in 1909 as the Chichele Professorship of Military History. In 1923, the History Faculty Board first recommended that the name of the chair be changed to the history of war, but this recommendataion was not implemented until 1946.

List of Professors

1. Spenser Wilkinson
   Spenser Wilkinson
   Henry Spenser Wilkinson was the first Chichele Professor of Military History at Oxford University. While he was an English writer known primarily for his work on military subjects, he had wide interests...
   
   , 1909 - 1923
2. Sir Ernest Swinton, 1925 - 1939

The Chair was vacant from 1939 to 1943 and suspended between 1943 and 1946, when it was renamed

1. Cyril Falls
   Cyril Falls
   Cyril Bentham Falls CBE was a military historian noted for his work on the First World War. He was born in Dublin and died in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey....
   
   , 1946 - 1953
2. N. H. Gibbs
   N. H. Gibbs
   Norman Henry Gibbs was Chichele Professor of the History of War at Oxford University for 24 years from 1953 to 1977, the longest tenure of all who have held the chair since its establishment in 1909.-Education and early career:Gibbs was an Open Exhibitioner at Magdalen College, Oxford in 1928,...
   
   , 1953 - 1977
3. Sir Michael Howard
   Michael Howard (historian)
   Sir Michael Eliot Howard, OM, CH, CBE, MC, FBA is a British military historian, formerly Chichele Professor of the History of War and Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford University, and Robert A...
   
   , 1977 - 1980
4. Robert J. O'Neill
   Robert J. O'Neill
   Robert John O'Neill AO is Chair of the International Academic Advisory Committee at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, was director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, based in London, 1982-1987, and Chichele Professor of the History of War at Oxford...
   
   , 1987 - 2000
5. Hew Strachan
   Hew Strachan
   Brigadier Professor Hew Francis Anthony Strachan, DL, FRSE, FRHS is a Scottish military historian, well known for his work on the administration of the British Army and the history of the First World War...
   
   , 2001 -