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词条 J. C. Holt
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  1. Career

  2. Honours

  3. Publications

     Selected works 

  4. Personal

  5. Notes

  6. External links

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}}Sir James Clarke ("Jim") Holt {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FBA|FRHS}} (26 April 1922 – 9 April 2014) was an English medieval historian, known particularly for his work on Magna Carta. He was the third Master of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, serving between 1981 and 1988.[3]

Career

Educated at Bradford Grammar School, Holt's studies at The Queen's College, Oxford were interrupted by war service with the British Army, including 14 months in north-west Europe in 1944-45. Returning to The Queen's College in 1945, he graduated with a first class degree in History in 1947, and subsequently took his DPhil with a thesis titled The 'northern' barons under John in 1952, at Merton College, Oxford.[4]

He held the positions of Lecturer (1949–1962)[4] and then Professor of Medieval History (1962–65) at the University of Nottingham,[4] Professor of History at the University of Reading (1965–1978) and Professor of Medieval History at the University of Cambridge from 1978 until his retirement in 1988. From 1981 until 1988 he served as the Master of Fitzwilliam College.[3]

He was on the governing body of Abingdon School from 1969–1979.[5]

He died on 9 April 2014, aged 91.[6]

Honours

Holt became a Fellow of the British Academy in 1978 and was its Vice President from 1987–1989,[3] was president of the Royal Historical Society (1981–1985),[7] and was knighted for his work as an historian.

Publications

Holt made his name with the book Magna Carta, which came out in its original edition in 1965. In this work he treated the charter in the context of the political framework of its time. The book has since been fully revised, and is still considered authoritative within its field.

He also published other works on the same period, such as The Northerners: A Study in the Reign of King John, and Robin Hood.

Selected works

  • The Northerners: A Study in the Reign of King John, (1961)[4]
  • Magna Carta, (1965)
  • What's in a name? Family nomenclature and the Norman Conquest. (The Stenton Lecture 1981). University of Reading, 1982.
  • Robin Hood, (London, 1982)
  • Magna Carta and Medieval Government, (1985)
  • Foundations for the Future: The University of Cambridge, (1995)
  • Colonial England, 1066-1215, (1997)
  • Magna Carta (Cambridge, 2015)

Personal

Holt married Alice Suley in 1951; they had one son. Holt was "passionate about cricket".[8]

Notes

1. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?r=147116083&d=bmd_1402349149|title=Index entry|accessdate=28 August 2014|work=FreeBMD|publisher=ONS}}
2. ^{{cite news|title=Sir James Holt - obituary|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10825256/Sir-James-Holt-obituary.html|accessdate=13 May 2014|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=12 May 2014}}
3. ^British Academy Fellowship entry {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413141959/http://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship/directory/ord.cfm?member=2177 |date=13 April 2014}}
4. ^{{cite book|editor1-last=Levens|editor1-first=R.G.C.|title=Merton College Register 1900-1964|date=1964|publisher=Basil Blackwell|location=Oxford|page=372}}
5. ^{{cite web |url=https://www.abingdon.org.uk/uploads/school/files/abingdonian/1974_February_V016_N004.pdf#page=35|title=Governors|publisher=The Abingdonian}}
6. ^Professor Sir James Holt dies {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413141215/http://www.fitz.cam.ac.uk/about/newsitem-4-211 |date=13 April 2014}} Fitzwilliam College News accessed 11 April 2014
7. ^{{cite web| url= http://www.royalhistoricalsociety.org/rhspresidents.pdf| title= A List of Presidents| publisher= Royal Historical Society| accessdate= 20 December 2010| deadurl= yes| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20130203053425/http://www.royalhistoricalsociety.org/rhspresidents.pdf| archivedate= 3 February 2013| df= }}
8. ^{{cite journal |author= Rosamond McKitterick and Christine Carpenter|title = Jim Holt [Obituary tribute]| journal =The Seeley History Faculty News Letter| volume = nbr 5/2014|page=10 | date = August 2014}}

External links

  • Transcript of Interview with Prof Sir James Holt (interview took place in Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, 16 May 2008). Includes photograph & autobiographical details.
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20110616193043/http://www.history.ac.uk/makinghistory/resources/interviews/mp3/JH.mp3 MP3 audio file of the Interview with Prof Sir James Holt, 16 May 2008].
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