Beit Professor of Commonwealth History

The Beit Professorship of Commonwealth History is one of the senior professorships in history at the University of Oxford. It was established in 1905 as the Beit Professorship of Colonial History. It is the first imperial professorship in the United Kingdom. The post is held in conjunction with a fellowship at Balliol College, Oxford.

Beit Professors

 * Hugh Egerton (1905–1920)
 * Sir Reginald Coupland (1920–1948)
 * Vincent T. Harlow (1950–1963)
 * John Andrew Gallagher (1963–1971)
 * Ronald Robinson (1971–1987)
 * Judith M. Brown (1990–2011)
 * James Belich (2011–)