Nowell Myres

John Nowell Linton Myres was a British archaeologist and Bodley's Librarian at the Bodleian Library in Oxford from 1948 until his resignation in 1965; and librarian of Christ Church before his Bodleian appointment.

Life

His father, John Myres|John], had been Wykeham [Professor of Ancient History] at Oxford. Nowell Myres was educated at Winchester College and then New College, Oxford and was president of the Oxford University Archaeological Society in 1923. He became a tutor at Christ Church from 1928. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1966. He gave the 1970 Raleigh Lecture on History.

Works

He was recognised as a leading authority on British history in the time of the Anglo-Saxons and earlier. He and R. G. Collingwood wrote the first volume of the Oxford History of England which was widely recognised as a classic. When the series was re-released in the 1980s this volume was split in two, Peter Salway writing what had been Collingwood's part and Myres rewriting his own part.

Selected publications

1936: "The English Settlements", in: Collingwood, R. G. & Myres, J. N. L. Roman Britain and the English Settlements. Oxford: Clarendon Press; pp. 325–461 & bibliography
1986: The English Settlements. Oxford: Oxford University Press ;