Anthony Steel (historian)

Anthony Bedford Steel (24 February 1900 – 3 October 1973) was a British historian, specialising in medieval England. He was a fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, and principal of Cardiff University from 1949 to 1966. Among his publications were a monograph on the reign of Richard II, as well as a biography of the 19th-century writer Robert Smith Surtees, titled Jorrick's England. He also translated Albert Sorel's L'Europe et la Revolution Francaise into English (as Europe and the French Revolution).

Publications

 * Jorrocks's England: On the Works of Robert Smith Surtees (London: Methuen & Co., 1932).
 * Richard II (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1941).
 * The Custom of the Room; or, Early Wine-Books of Christ's College, Cambridge (Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons 1951).
 * The Receipt of the Exchequer, 1377–1485 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1954).