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V. H. (Vivian Hunter) Galbraith
1889–1976
A leading medieval historian of the twentieth century, he helped shape how English constitutional and administrative history was studied at Oxford and beyond. His work is especially remembered for its close reading of chronicles and public records.
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The Abbey of St. Albans from 1300 to the dissolution of the monasteries : The Stanhope essay, 1911
by V. H. (Vivian Hunter) Galbraith
About the author
Born in Sheffield in 1889, Vivian Hunter Galbraith became one of Britain's best-known medieval historians. He studied at Balliol College, Oxford, served in the First World War, and later built a long academic career centered on the history of medieval England.
Galbraith taught at the University of Edinburgh and then at Oxford, where he was a fellow of Balliol and eventually served as Regius Professor of Modern History from 1947 to 1957. He was also elected a Fellow of the British Academy, reflecting the high regard in which his scholarship was held.
His writing focused on medieval chronicles, kingship, and the use of official records, and he was admired for combining exact scholarship with a lively sense of historical argument. He died in Oxford in 1976.