Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge

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Regius chair academic position professorship

The Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge is a prestigious royal-appointed chair in modern historical studies at the University of Cambridge.

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Regius chair → academic position → professorship →
appointedBy	British monarch → the Crown →
country	United Kingdom →
employer	University of Cambridge NERFINISHED →
fieldOfWork	history → modern history →
foundedBy	George I of Great Britain →
hasAcademicDiscipline	humanities → social sciences →
hasAppointmentMethod	royal appointment on advice of the government →
hasAssociatedDepartment	Faculty of History →
hasChairType	royal chair →
hasGeographicFocus	European history → global history →
hasJurisdiction	University of Cambridge NERFINISHED →
hasLanguage	English →
hasLevel	senior professorship →
hasNotableHolder	Alison Bashford → George Macaulay Trevelyan → John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair → John Robert Seeley → Quentin Skinner → Sir Geoffrey Elton → Sir James Stephen → Sir John H. Plumb → Sir Richard J. Evans → Thomas Gray → William Smyth →
hasPrimaryResponsibility	research in modern history → supervision of graduate students in history → teaching modern history →
hasSelectionCriteria	distinguished scholarship in modern history →
hasStatus	prestigious →
hasTemporalFocus	modern period → post-medieval history →
hasTenureType	tenured →
inception	1724 →
isOneOf	Regius professorships at the University of Cambridge →
isPartOf	Faculty of History, University of Cambridge →
isRoyalProfessorship	true →
locatedIn	Cambridge → England → University of Cambridge NERFINISHED →

Referenced by (2)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Herbert Butterfield → Thomas Gray →	positionHeld