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searchaux" style="display:none">British military historian (1860–1946)</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For the American economist, see <a href="/wiki/Charles_P._Oman" title="Charles P. Oman">Charles P. Oman</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="honorific-prefix" style="display:inline;font-size: 77%; font-weight: normal;"><a href="/wiki/Sir" title="Sir">Sir</a></div><br /><div style="display:inline;" class="fn">Charles Oman</div><br /><div class="honorific-suffix" style="display:inline;font-size: 77%; font-weight: normal;"><span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Knight_Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire">KBE</a></span>, <span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_British_Academy" title="Fellow of the British Academy">FBA</a></span></span></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Charles_Oman.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Oman in 1940"><img alt="Oman in 1940" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Charles_Oman.png" decoding="async" width="158" height="238" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="158" data-file-height="238" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="line-height:1.4em;">Oman in 1940</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Born</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1860-01-12</span>)</span>12 January 1860<br /><a href="/wiki/Muzaffarpur_district" title="Muzaffarpur district">Muzaffarpur district</a>, India</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Died</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><span class="nowrap">23 June 1946<span style="display:none">(1946-06-23)</span> (aged 86)</span><br /><a href="/wiki/Oxford,_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Oxford, England">Oxford</a>, United Kingdom</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role" style="line-height:1.4em;">Historian</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/University_of_Oxford" title="University of Oxford">University of Oxford</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman</b>, <span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Knight_Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire">KBE</a></span>, <span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_British_Academy" title="Fellow of the British Academy">FBA</a></span></span> (12 January 1860 – 23 June 1946) was a British <a href="/wiki/Military_history" title="Military history">military historian</a>. His reconstructions of medieval battles from the fragmentary and distorted accounts left by chroniclers were pioneering. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charles_Oman&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Oman was born in <a href="/wiki/Muzaffarpur_district" title="Muzaffarpur district">Muzaffarpur district</a>, India,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the son of a British planter, and was educated at <a href="/wiki/Winchester_College" title="Winchester College">Winchester College</a> and at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Oxford" title="University of Oxford">University of Oxford</a>, where he studied under <a href="/wiki/William_Stubbs" title="William Stubbs">William Stubbs</a>. Here, he was invited to become a founding member of the <a href="/wiki/Stubbs_Society" title="Stubbs Society">Stubbs Society</a>, which was under Stubbs's patronage. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charles_Oman&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1881 he was elected to a Prize Fellowship at <a href="/wiki/All_Souls_College" class="mw-redirect" title="All Souls College">All Souls College</a>, where he remained for the rest of his academic career. He was elected the <a href="/wiki/Chichele_Professor" class="mw-redirect" title="Chichele Professor">Chichele Professor</a> of Modern History at Oxford in 1905, in succession to <a href="/wiki/Montagu_Burrows" title="Montagu Burrows">Montagu Burrows</a>. He was also elected to the <a href="/wiki/British_Academy" title="British Academy">FBA</a> that year, and served as president of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Historical_Society" title="Royal Historical Society">Royal Historical Society</a> (1917–1921), the Numismatic Society and the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Archaeological_Institute" title="Royal Archaeological Institute">Royal Archaeological Institute</a>. </p><p>Among his teaching activities at Oxford, he taught the special subject in military history with <a href="/wiki/C._T._Atkinson" title="C. T. Atkinson">C. T. Atkinson</a> of Exeter College that focused on the <a href="/wiki/Peninsular_War" title="Peninsular War">Peninsular War</a>. </p><p>Oman's academic career was interrupted by the <a href="/wiki/First_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="First World War">First World War</a>, during which he was employed by the government's Press Bureau and the <a href="/wiki/Foreign_and_Commonwealth_Office" class="mw-redirect" title="Foreign and Commonwealth Office">Foreign Office</a>. </p><p>Oman was the <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> Member of <a href="/wiki/British_House_of_Commons" class="mw-redirect" title="British House of Commons">Parliament</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Oxford_University_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Oxford University (UK Parliament constituency)">University of Oxford constituency</a> from 1919 to 1935, and was <a href="/wiki/Knight" title="Knight">knighted</a> <a href="/wiki/Knight_Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire">KBE</a> in the <a href="/wiki/1920_New_Year_Honours" title="1920 New Year Honours">1920 civilian war honours list</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The parody history book <i><a href="/wiki/1066_and_All_That" title="1066 and All That">1066 and All That</a></i>, published in 1930, includes the dedication "<i>Absit Oman</i>", a distortion of the <a href="/wiki/List_of_Latin_phrases" title="List of Latin phrases">Latin phrase</a> "Absit omen". It can be translated as "may Oman be absent", reflecting the prominence of Oman among English historians at the time. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Honours">Honours</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charles_Oman&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Honours"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He became an honorary fellow of <a href="/wiki/New_College,_Oxford" title="New College, Oxford">New College</a> in 1936, and received the <a href="/wiki/Honorary_degree" title="Honorary degree">honorary degrees</a> of <a href="/wiki/Doctor_of_Civil_Law" title="Doctor of Civil Law">DCL</a> (Oxford, 1926) and <a href="/wiki/Doctor_of_Laws" class="mw-redirect" title="Doctor of Laws">LL.D</a> (<a href="/wiki/University_of_Edinburgh" title="University of Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a>, 1911 and <a href="/wiki/University_of_Cambridge" title="University of Cambridge">Cambridge</a>, 1927). He was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Medal_of_the_Royal_Numismatic_Society" title="Medal of the Royal Numismatic Society">Medal of the Royal Numismatic Society</a> in 1928.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He died at <a href="/wiki/Oxford,_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Oxford, England">Oxford</a> aged 86. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Children">Children</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charles_Oman&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Children"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Two of Oman's children became authors. His daughter <a href="/wiki/Carola_Oman" title="Carola Oman">Carola Oman</a> <a href="/wiki/Commander_of_the_Order_of_the_British_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Commander of the Order of the British Empire">CBE</a> was a writer of history, biography, and fiction for adults and children, including a retelling of the Robin Hood legend and biographies of <a href="/wiki/Horatio_Nelson,_1st_Viscount_Nelson" title="Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson">Admiral Lord Nelson</a> and <a href="/wiki/John_Moore_(British_Army_officer)" title="John Moore (British Army officer)">Lieutenant-General Sir John Moore</a>. His son Charles C. Oman wrote several volumes on British silverware and similar houseware, worked as a Keeper of the Department of Metalwork in the <a href="/wiki/Victoria_and_Albert_Museum" title="Victoria and Albert Museum">Victoria and Albert Museum</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was active in the <a href="/wiki/Folklore_Society" class="mw-redirect" title="Folklore Society">Folklore Society</a><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (and was in turn father to <a href="/wiki/Julia_Trevelyan_Oman" title="Julia Trevelyan Oman">Julia Trevelyan Oman</a>). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Works">Works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charles_Oman&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1880s">1880s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charles_Oman&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 1880s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>The Art of War in the <a href="/wiki/Middle_Ages" title="Middle Ages">Middle Ages</a></i> (1885)</li> <li>"The Anglo-Norman and Angevin Administrative System (1100–1265)", in <i>Essays Introductory to the Study of English Constitutional History</i> (1887)</li> <li><i>A History of Greece From the Earliest Times to the Death of Alexander the Great</i> (1888; 7th ed., 1900; <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008612730">8th ed., rev., 1905</a>)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1890s">1890s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charles_Oman&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: 1890s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000313082"><i>Warwick the Kingmaker</i></a> (1891)<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006734253"><i>The Byzantine Empire</i></a> (1892)</li> <li><i>The Dark Ages 476–918</i>, Period I of <i>Periods of European History</i> (1893; 5th ed. 1905)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008224416"><i>A History of England</i></a> (1895; 2nd ed. 1919)</li> <li><i>A History of the Art of War in the <a href="/wiki/Middle_Ages" title="Middle Ages">Middle Ages</a>, Vol. I: A.D. 378–1278</i> (1898; 2nd ed. 1924)</li> <li><i>A History of the Art of War in the <a href="/wiki/Middle_Ages" title="Middle Ages">Middle Ages</a>, Vol. II: A.D. 1278–1485</i> (1898; 2nd ed. 1924)</li> <li><i>England and the <a href="/wiki/Hundred_Years_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Hundred Years War">Hundred Years War</a>, 1327–1485 A.D.</i> (1898), No. III of <i>The Oxford Manuals of English History</i>, Charles Oman, ed.</li> <li>"Alfred as a Warrior", in <i>Alfred The Great</i>, Alfred Bowker, ed. (1899)</li> <li><i>Reign of George VI, 1900-1925. A Forecast Written in the Year 1763</i> (preface and notes) (1763; republished 1899)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1900s">1900s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charles_Oman&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: 1900s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005944943"><i>England in the Nineteenth Century</i></a> (1900)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_History_of_the_Peninsular_War" title="A History of the Peninsular War">A History of the Peninsular War</a>, Vol. I: 1807–1809</i> (1902)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000674392"><i>Seven Roman Statesmen of the Later Roman Republic</i></a> (1902)</li> <li><i>A History of the <a href="/wiki/Peninsular_War" title="Peninsular War">Peninsular War</a>, Vol. II: Jan. 1809-Sep. 1809</i> (1903)<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>"The <a href="/wiki/Peninsular_War" title="Peninsular War">Peninsular War</a>, 1808–14", in <i><a href="/wiki/Cambridge_Modern_History" class="mw-redirect" title="Cambridge Modern History">The Cambridge Modern History</a></i>, Vol. IX, <i>Napoleon</i> (1906)</li> <li>"The <a href="/wiki/Hundred_Days" title="Hundred Days">Hundred Days</a>, 1815", in <i>The Cambridge Modern History</i>, Vol. IX, <i>Napoleon</i> (1906)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100364467">"Inaugural lecture on the study of history"</a> (1906), in <i>Oxford Lectures on University Studies, 1906–1921</i> (1924)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000768824"><i>The Great Revolt of 1381</i></a> (1906)<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (See <a href="/wiki/Peasants%27_Revolt" title="Peasants' Revolt">The Great Revolt of 1381</a>.)</li> <li><i>The History of England from the Accession of Richard II. to the Death of Richard III. (1377–1485)</i>, Vol. IV of <i>The Political History of England</i> (1906), William Hunt & Reginald Poole, ed.</li> <li><i>A History of the <a href="/wiki/Peninsular_War" title="Peninsular War">Peninsular War</a>, Vol. III: Sep. 1809 – Dec. 1810</i> (1908)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1910s">1910s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charles_Oman&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: 1910s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>A History of England Before the <a href="/wiki/Norman_Conquest" title="Norman Conquest">Norman Conquest</a></i> (1910; 8th ed. 1937), Vol. I of <i>A History of England in Seven Volumes</i> (1904–), Charles Oman, ed.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_History_of_the_Peninsular_War" title="A History of the Peninsular War">A History of the Peninsular War</a>, Vol. IV: Dec. 1810 – Dec. 1811</i> (1911)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Wellesley,_1st_Duke_of_Wellington" title="Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington">Wellington</a>'s Army, 1809–1814</i> (1912)</li> <li><i>A History of the <a href="/wiki/Peninsular_War" title="Peninsular War">Peninsular War</a>, Vol. V: Oct. 1811 – Aug. 1812</i> (1914)</li> <li><i>The Outbreak of the War of 1914–18: A Narrative Based Mainly on British Official Documents</i> (1919)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1920s">1920s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charles_Oman&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: 1920s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/A_History_of_the_Peninsular_War" title="A History of the Peninsular War">A History of the Peninsular War</a>, Vol. VI: Sep. 1812 – Aug. 1813</i> (1922)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000665510"><i>The Unfortunate Colonel Despard & Other Studies</i></a> (1922)</li> <li><i>Castles</i> (1926)</li> <li>"The <a href="/wiki/Duke_of_Wellington" class="mw-redirect" title="Duke of Wellington">Duke of Wellington</a>", in <i>Political Principles of Some Notable Prime Ministers of the Nineteenth Century</i>, Fossey John Cobb Hearnshaw, ed. (1926)</li> <li><i>Studies in the Napoleonic Wars</i> (1929)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1930s">1930s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charles_Oman&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: 1930s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/A_History_of_the_Peninsular_War" title="A History of the Peninsular War">A History of the Peninsular War</a>, Vol. VII: Aug. 1813 – Apr. 1814</i> (1930)</li> <li><i>The Coinage of England</i> (1931)</li> <li><i>Things I Have Seen</i> (1933)</li> <li>"The Necessity for the Reformation" (1933) (public lecture)</li> <li><i>A History of the Art of War in the Sixteenth Century</i> (1937)</li> <li><i>The Sixteenth century</i> (1937)</li> <li><i>On the Writing of History</i> (1939)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1940s">1940s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charles_Oman&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: 1940s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Memories of Victorian Oxford and of Some Early Years</i> (1941)</li> <li><i>The Lyons Mail</i> (1945)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charles_Oman&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output 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Oman"</a>. <i>The English Historical Review</i>. <b>7</b>: 761–767.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+English+Historical+Review&rft.atitle=Review+of+Warwick+the+Kingmaker+by+Charles+W.+Oman&rft.volume=7&rft.pages=761-767&rft.date=1892-10&rft.au=Tait%2C+James&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fbabel.hathitrust.org%2Fcgi%2Fpt%3Fid%3Dmdp.39015012327915%3Bview%3D1up%3Bseq%3D773&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACharles+Oman" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation journal cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=fNdAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA145">"Review of <i>A History of the Peninsular War, Vol. II, January–September 1809</i> by Charles Oman"</a>. <i>The Athenæum</i> (3953): 145–146. 1 August 1903.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Athen%C3%A6um&rft.atitle=Review+of+A+History+of+the+Peninsular+War%2C+Vol.+II%2C+January%E2%80%93September+1809+by+Charles+Oman&rft.issue=3953&rft.pages=145-146&rft.date=1903-08-01&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DfNdAAQAAMAAJ%26pg%3DPA145&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACharles+Oman" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFTait,_James.1907" class="citation journal cs1"><a href="/wiki/James_Tait_(historian)" title="James Tait (historian)">Tait, James.</a> (January 1907). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b4815158;view=1up;seq=173">"Review of <i>The Great Revolt of 1381</i> by Charles Oman"</a>. <i>The English Historical Review</i>. <b>22</b>: 161–164. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1093%2Fehr%2FXXII.LXXXV.161">10.1093/ehr/XXII.LXXXV.161</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+English+Historical+Review&rft.atitle=Review+of+The+Great+Revolt+of+1381+by+Charles+Oman&rft.volume=22&rft.pages=161-164&rft.date=1907-01&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1093%2Fehr%2FXXII.LXXXV.161&rft.au=Tait%2C+James.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbabel.hathitrust.org%2Fcgi%2Fpt%3Fid%3Duc1.b4815158%3Bview%3D1up%3Bseq%3D173&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ACharles+Oman" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 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Quickswood">Lord Hugh Cecil</a><br /><a href="/wiki/A._P._Herbert" title="A. P. Herbert">A. P. Herbert</a></div> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="border-top: 5px solid #DAA520;">Academic offices </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <td style="width:30%;" rowspan="1">Preceded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Charles_Harding_Firth" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles Harding Firth">Charles Harding Firth</a></div> </td> <td style="width: 40%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1"><b> <a href="/wiki/Royal_Historical_Society" title="Royal Historical Society">President of the Royal Historical Society</a> </b><br />1917–1921 </td> <td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/John_William_Fortescue" class="mw-redirect" title="John William Fortescue">John William Fortescue</a></div> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="navbox-styles"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist 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