British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Professor Geoffrey Best
Senior Associate Member, St Antony's College, Oxford
Year Elected: 2003
ELECTED AS A SENIOR FELLOW
He is an historian of mid-Victorian England, of modern warfare and its laws, and of Britain and Europe in the 20th century. After holding posts in the Universities of Sussex and Edinburgh until his retirement, he remains academically active and his most recent publication was a substantial biography of Churchill.