[1] Two dates have been seen, the other being 12 August 1948.
Wife: Sarah Foot (historian, m. 12-Sep-2002, one son)
University: BA Modern History and Politics, University of Sheffield (1969)
University: PhD, Cambridge University
Lecturer: University of Sheffield
Professor: Modern History, University of St. Andrews
Author of books:
The Liberal Mind, 1914-1929 (1977, history)
Modern Historiography: An Introduction (1999, history)
Lord Salisbury's World: Conservative Environments in Late-Victorian Britain (2001, history)
Companion to Historiography (2002, history)
Modernizing England's Past: English Historiography in the Age of Modernism, 1870-1970 (2005, history)
The Life and Thought of Herbert Butterfield: History, Science and God (2011, biography)