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Dr.
John Morris (1913 - June
1977) was an English historian who specialised in the study of the institutions of the
Roman Empire and the history of
Sub-Roman Britain. He is best known for
The Age of Arthur (
1973), in which he attempted to reconstruct the history of Britain and Ireland during the so-called "Dark Ages" following the Roman withdrawal, based on scattered
archaeological and historical records. The book included detailed chapters on Brittany on the grounds that the Celtic population of Brittany after the migrations from "Greater Britain" meant that "Little Britain" (Brittany) was as much heir to Roman
Britannia as were England, Wales and Scotland.
Morris read Modern History at
Oxford University, before serving in the
Army during the
Second World War. After the war he held a Leon Fellowship at the
University of London and a Junior Fellowship at the
Warburg Institute. In 1948 he was appointed Lecturer in Ancient History at
University College, London. He worked in India in 1968 and 1969 as a lecturer for the Indian University Grants Commission, before returning to UCL to become Senior Lecturer in Ancient History, a post he held until his death.
In 1952 Dr. Morris founded the historical journal
Past and Present, which he edited until 1960, and remained chairman of the editorial board until 1972. He was one of the writers, along with
A.H.M. Jones and J. R. Martindale, of
The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, a biographical dictionary of the years 527-641, the first volume of which was published in 1971. He also instigated the publication of a new edition of the
Domesday Book, and edited the
Arthurian Period Sources series. His last book was
Londinium: London in the Roman Empire, published posthumously in 1982.
Morris was a
socialist and
anti-war campaigner. He stood unsuccessfully for
Parliament in 1935 as a
Labour Party candidate, and was for a time secretary to the Labour MP
George Strauss. He was a founder-member of the
Committee of 100, an anti-war group founded by
Bertrand Russell in 1960, and was later involved in the
Institute for Workers' Control.
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