J. M. Wallace-Hadrill

Wallace-Hadrill was born on 29 September 1916 in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, where his father was a master at Bromsgrove School.^[1] He was ProfessorofMediaeval History at the University of Manchester between 1955 and 1961. He then became a Senior Research FellowofMerton College in the University of Oxford (where he held the office of Sub-Warden) from 1961 till 1974.^[2] He was Chichele Professor of Modern HistoryatOxford from 1974 to 1983 and, between 1974 and 1985, a FellowatAll Souls College, Oxford.

He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1969 and delivered the Ford Lectures in 1971. He was a Vice-President of the Royal Historical Society between 1973 and 1976. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1982. He is the father of the Roman historian Andrew Wallace-Hadrill and the brother of church historian, D.S. Wallace-Hadrill.^[3]

• 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).