Professor Paul Langford (born November 20, 1945) is a British historian and Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford. Events 284 - Diocletian was chosen as Roman Emperor. 762 - Bögü Khan of the Uyghurs, Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located The word rector ("ruler" from the Latin regere and Rector meaning "Teacher" In Latin has a number of different meanings but all of them indicate an academic Lincoln College (in full The College of the Blessed Mary and All Saints Lincoln) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford
Educated at Monmouth School and Hertford College, Oxford, he was elected to a Junior Research Fellowship in modern history at Lincoln College in 1969, becoming a tutorial fellow in 1970. Monmouth School is a Public school for boys in Monmouth, Monmouthshire in south east Wales. Hertford College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. He was a university lecturer from 1971 to 1994, being elected a Reader in modern history in 1994 and a professor of modern history in 1996. The University of Oxford (informally "Oxford University" or simply "Oxford" located in the city of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England is the
Having served as a member of the Humanities Research Board from 1995, he was appointed chairman and chief executive of the new Arts and Humanities Research Board in 1998, a post he held until 2000, when he returned to Oxford to take up the Rectorship of Lincoln College. The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC is a British Research Council and Non-Departmental Public Body that provides government funding
He has been a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society since 1979, a Fellow of the British Academy since 1993 and was made an honorary Fellow of Hertford College in 2000. The Royal Historical Society was founded in 1868. It is the premier society in the United Kingdom which promotes and defends the scholarly study of the past The British Academy is the United Kingdom 's National academy for the Humanities and the Social sciences It was established by Royal Charter In 2002, the University of Sheffield awarded him an honorary D.Litt.. The University of Sheffield is a research University, located in Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England. Doctor of Letters ( Latin: Litterarum doctor; DLitt; or Litt D
Notable publications include A Polite and Commercial People (OUP).
Langford married Margaret Edwards in 1970 and has one son, Hugh.
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