Paul Langford
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Professor Paul Langford (born November 20, 1945) is a British historian and Rector of Lincoln College, 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. 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.
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.
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. In 2002, the University of Sheffield awarded him an honorary D.Litt..
Notable publications include A Polite and Commercial People (OUP).
Langford married Margaret Edwards in 1970 and has one son, Hugh.
