Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History
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The Smuts Professorship of Commonwealth History was established on 25 October 1952 as the Smuts Professorship of the History of the British Commonwealth; it was retitled in 1994. The professorship is assigned to the Faculty of History
at the University of Cambridge
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History
History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...
at the University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
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List of Smuts Professors of Commonwealth History
- Philip Nicholas Seton Mansergh (1953-1970)
- Eric Thomas StokesEric Thomas StokesEric Thomas Stokes was a historian of South Asia, especially early-modern and colonial India, and of the British Empire. Stokes was the second holder of Smuts Professorship of the History of the British Commonwealth at the University of Cambridge....
(1970-1981) - Donald Anthony Low (1983-1994)
- A. G. HopkinsA. G. HopkinsAntony "Tony" G. Hopkins, FBA is a distinguished British historian at the University of Texas, where he holds the Walter Prescott Webb Professorship of History and Ideas. Hopkins was formerly the Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History at the University of Cambridge and is currently an Emeritus...
(1994-2002) - Megan Vaughan (2002-)